India ditches 'potentially harmful' $100 laptop plan
India has declared it won’t be buying any $100 laptops, saying it prefers to spend the money on teachers and more traditional teaching tools.
The Indian government rejected proposals by the country’s Planning Commission to buy the $100 hardware from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
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