India unveils world’s cheapest tablet computer for $35

If India now creates a national or city wide free wifi network, their economy would skyrocket in the next two decades.

May be those who come out of such an education system will know better than working within a corrupt, bureaucratic and broken system.

Subsidized government programs exist because this is where the market fails and governments have a larger and more important mission than just maximizing profits and putting on fancy keynotes for drooling fans.

Also, if this device proves to be the best way to deliver essential public services (e.g. education, tele-medicine, etc.), it most certainly is the job of the government to make tablets. If this is a platform on which people can innovate and build apps on top of, it is not a stretch to compare this to US federal funding of basic science.

But I've always wondered, what came first, the corrupt government, or citizens who don't pay tax?

I see the same thing in Greece. The government is corrupt, but the people don't pay taxes.

Does the government become corrupt because there isn't enough money to pay civil servants, or does do people refuse to pay taxes because they will be misused by a corrupt government?

First announcement: "we'll do it".

Status update: "as announced it is on course and will be completed 'soon'".

Launch: "as promised here it is for the public".

Media just publishes each statement as major news item and people feel it's already overrated.

This is a big surprise to me given the low specs. Can it do this well?

Granted, a seven-inch screen will make it harder. But for creation of content there's always actual paper and pencil. They can keep doing whatever they're already doing in that regard. And if they can't now, there's at least the theoretical ability to attach a keyboard.

The way I see it, the first goal is to be a lighter, more flexible textbook. This is exactly content consumption. It will likely do a good job of this. If it does anything else as well, that's a bonus.

My bad. Downvote me to oblivion.

And yes, rural electrification is a huge challenge, but it's much easier to deploy a solar panel per school , to power some tens/hundreds of low power tablets.