I would even dare to say that 90% of NGOs are not created for “social” reasons and their intentions are not benevolent! That leaves us only with private companies as the sole warrior for this cause.

One more point. In the U.S. there has been a lot of support for educational vouchers. The idea is that parents and students can take their tax dollars and spend them on the school of their choice, public or private. The voucher rarely covers the full cost of the schools they choose and they end up paying the difference out of their pocket — the "market system." While such a system is quite popular among the upper and some of the middle classes in the U.S., where it has been tried it has had the effect of draining public funds from the poorer neighborhoods. Those families unable to pay a share of the costs end up sending their children to impoverished schools and with other children in the same circumstances.

Charter schools, on the other hand, have been more effective. These schools are fully funded by their governments but "chartered" outside of the regular public education system. Typically charter school children are chosen by lot. This provides a degree of competition without the downside of deselecting the most impoverished children.

I agree totally with adding Affordable to QUBE. AQUBE. However privately funded education inherently favors the relatively well to do as distinct from the poor. And, as you know, there are millions of the latter in India as well as many other countries around the world. OLE is founded on the principal that every child, no matter where or how poor, has an inherent right to a quality basic education. That cannot be accomplished by the private sector.

NGO's like OLE can be catalysts to "demonstrate, document and persuade" government to scale those AQUBE systems that are appropriate for their country. But scaling of a quality basic education to all children, and all adults for that matter, requires a public commitment and public funds. It is quite understandable that many have given up trying to make that happen. But the alternative is that tens of millions of children are deprived of this basic right. We must not let that happen.

Notwithstanding all of that, however, the more customized courseware can be for different settings and individuals, the better.

The Govt. / multilateral bodies should instead focus on creating friendly policies/ support mechanisms to help new innovative education companies to come out with cost effective educational models/ products.

As you mentioned before, creating educational materials that are locally sensitive are a great goal, but without the buy in from local groups it will be difficult for them created, edited, implemented, used, and revised.

This has to be done at a local level, adapting to each individual environment. It would require implementation and design experts working hand in hand with local stakeholders. This is another place where resources could be applied, for taking this on is an immense task.