Anthony Wong and Satish Jha to Lead OLPC Push in China and India

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(EMWNews)–One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization focused on

providing educational tools to help children in developing countries “learn

learning,” is strengthening its presence in

Asia with the appointments of Anthony S K Wong as President of OLPC

China and Satish Jha as President of OLPC India.

“With 40 percent of the world’s

children located in China and India, these two countries are obviously

important targets for OLPC,” said Nicholas

Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child. “Tony

Wong and Satish Jha both bring tremendous experience to the goal of

expanding OLPC’s penetration in Asia and we

look forward to their contributions to our progress.”

Anthony S K Wong, President OLPC China

Tony Wong has worked in the Hong Kong Government for his entire career.

As the Commissioner for Innovation and Technology, he was responsible

for the promotion and development of innovation and technology in Hong

Kong. Major initiatives included: supporting applied research and

development and technology transfer; facilitating the provision of

technology support infrastructure and development of human resources;

fostering technological entrepreneurship and an innovation and

technology culture in the community; furthering technological

collaboration with Mainland China and other places; and promoting

internationally accepted standards and conformity assessment services to

underpin technological development and international trade.

Wong was the Director-General of Telecommunications and the

Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong from March 1997 to August

2003. One of his major achievements was the liberalization of the

telecom services and facilities markets in Hong Kong. He also

contributed towards the development and promotion of the information

infrastructure in Hong Kong and the convergence of the computing,

broadcasting and telecommunications industries.

In the international arena, Wong served as Chairman of the World

Telecommunication Policy Forum in 2000, Chairman of the Annual Global

Symposium for Regulators in 2001 and Chairman of the Policy and Legal

Committee of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

Plenipotentiary Conference in 2002.

Satish Jha, President OLPC India

For 18 years Satish Jha has worked at the intersection of technology and

management, particularly in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and strategy

consulting sectors. He has served as a global CIO and executive with two

of the world’s largest pharmaceutical

companies and as CEO of a consulting firm.

Jha has also founded, mentored and seeded a couple of dozen social

projects with a focus on technology, business strategies and public

policy in the areas of universal access to education, healthcare and

bridging the digital divide. He is a member of the UN-GAID (United

Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development), Special Advisor to the

Kofi Annan Center and co-chairs the World IT Forum (WITFOR).

Earlier in his career Jha co-founded the Indian daily Janasatta

and was the Editor of The Times of India Group. He has been a National

Scholar in India, a Hubert Humphrey Fellow, Ford Fellow, Netherlands

Fellow and was granted scholarships for management education by France

Telecom and BNP. His co-edited work with Leon Strous on “ICTs for

Development and Prosperity” was published by IFIP in late 2007.

About One Laptop per Child

One Laptop per Child (OLPC at http://www.laptop.org)

is a non-profit organization created by Nicholas Negroponte and others

from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop

computers that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in

the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. These XO

laptops are rugged, open source, and so energy efficient that they can

be powered by a child manually. Mesh networking gives many machines

Internet access from one connection. The pricing goal is $100.

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