Thursday, January 15, 2009

OLPC: Reducing Size by Half

It is not a tech company or an auto company to have struggled the economy crisis. It was meant to serve a big purpose. An extremely bigger task, as big as building a Pyramid again. But it could not resist the recession taking over it.

The One Laptop Per Child project has announced that it is going to reduce its size by half if the present size.

“It pains me to post this”, their blog says, “we have striven to avoid this over the past few months, but it is unavoidable”.

The situation is similar with many of the charity projects out there. They find it hard to look out for sponsors or donors to help them achieve their targets.

Their targets may look reasonable before the crisis started. These targets were created for those times. But for now, the situation has changed. All those targets seem to be impractical and unachievable.

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