OLPC Founder Give Recommendations for India’s Tablet

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), invited the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to examine how the OLPC team created their $100 laptop. As I mentioned last month, India’s government recently revealed a $35 tablet that is specifically designed for students. Negroponte stated in his invitation to India’s MHRD that he would like to collaborate with the tablet’s inventors rather than compete. Negroponte also gave six pieces of advice, and I found one of those most interesting:
“Focus on children 6 to 12 years old. They are your nation’s most precious natural resource. For primary school children, the tablet is not about computing or school, it is about hope. It makes passion the primary tool for learning.”