Laptop 10 U.S. Dollars, How India Spur Digital Leap

By advancing the world of education, India introduced the prototype of a laptop worth 35 dollars as part of a program to provide school students with their teachers connectivity in the country.

Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development of India, showing what he called the computing and low-cost access devices in New Delhi, Thursday (22 / 7) then.

The ministry, according to Technology Review reports, stating that the device's price will fall gradually to just 10 dollars per unit.

India says connectivity to all students and universities are key to achieving the country's educational goals. Home to over one billion population, literacy rate (the opposite of illiterate) state that 65 per cent based on 2001 population census results.

South Asian nation that has made giant steps in various areas since the economic progress early 1990s.

The country is being led in a telecommunications revolution that led to nearly 600 million people use mobile phones in just a decade with higher competition in tarif.Sekarang, India was preparing for another leap into the digital world.

Recently, the state government was auctioning off the airwaves for third-generation services that enable wireless multimedia streaming super-fast.

The move aims to bring the online market in India on an equal footing with the exploding cell phone business, through the penetration of Internet technologies that enable rapid access, data transfer, and entertainment on mobile devices.

This country has announced plans to connect all the village council whose numbers 250 000 in 2012 as an effort to share broadband between rural and urban communities.

Authorities said the technical agencies involved in designing new devices are now preparing the research to overcome the problem of price and quality to develop gadgets for the student budget.

"The goal is for these devices to reach students of colleges and universities, and institutions to provide access to low cost device ranges around Rs1.500 [$ 35] or less in the near future," said the ministry of human resources at the launch of the computer.

Mamata Varma ministry spokesman said the government aims to introduce a new device touch screen computers in higher education institutions in 2011.

The Ministry, he said, expecting no tender contracts with private companies for mass production of the prototype. "Linux-based computer equipped with Internet browser, PDF reader and a host of other facilities," he said.

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