To support the use of information technology in education, the government of India to encourage the development of the laptop at 10 U.S. dollars, or about Rp100.000. Laptops will be used in upper secondary schools.
"Research will be conducted at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai," said D Purandeswari, Minister of State Secondary Education in India a press conference in Delhi, on Tuesday (29 / 7). He did not mention more about the specifications of the computer, but make sure haulage partially subsidized by the government will produce.
In addition to the provision of cheap laptop, the government of India is also developing inexpensive Internet access equipment. Internet network will be built up to the corner to improve the distance-based IT. Secondary schools also planned bandwidth will be given free access to the Internet in education programs.
India, including countries with low Internet penetration. From the 1.13 billion population, there are only 4.38 million high-speed Internet customers.
Efforts to promote IT education for India herself has long since shared with a number of big companies such as Microsoft and Intel. India also has a computer with the previous price.
The Government of India is not interested in the program with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), which initiated Nicholas Negroponte. The reason, of the laptop for every school child will be considered to produce side effects, especially menmghambat creativity and power analysis. However, the OLPC pilot project conducted there since last year with the support of one Internet service provider, Reliance Communication.
Microsoft Research Center in India, since the last two years had developed a computer application that can be accessed by more than one person. In addition to the pressing costs, the group will drive the collaboration. One MightyMice application that allows 30 mouse can be used together in one computer that was installed Multipoint platform.
