R-adag In Tech Support For One Laptop Per Child Initiative

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Indiantelevision.com Team

11th October 2007 3:00 PM

MUMBAI: Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) has tied up with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation in an alliance to promote e-learning for children.

Under the initiative, Reliance Communications would provide internet connectivity, network backbone, logistic and support to the OLPC initiative in India, using its state-of-the-art network that would cover over 25,000 towns and 6,00,000 Indian villages by March 2008.

"The ethos of Reliance Group and the vision of OLPC Project, to enable 150 million school children across the world, gel perfectly. We are glad to be in a unique position to be a part of this initiative to provide children in India with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express," said Tina Anil Ambani announcing the collaboration.

She also announced the launch of OLPC's first pilot in India under which school children in a tribal village at Khairat (near Karjat, Maharashtra) have been provided with OLPC XO laptops and teacher training for incorporating the new way of imparting education.

Reliance Communications is providing the connectivity to these internet learning devices. According to an official release, OLPC provided laptops to 5 million schoolchildren across the world and aims to cover 150 mn schoolchildren by 2008.

Global Corporates like AMD, Google, News Corp, Nortel, eBay, Citigroup, Seagate, Adobe have partnered in setting up the OLPC Foundation, backed by United Nations

[Honest 836]

Nice initiative taken by Reliance my dear friends.