Joining the Global Village

Sandeep writes "This article tells of an initiative in rural India, to provide internet access for farmers. The initiative is called e-choupal, a name taken from the Hindi name for village square. An incongruous image when you consider they still use bullock carts for carrying the produce..."

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India and 2010 - What may come ....

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India is going to host the Commonwealth Games 2010 (72 Countries, including Canada) in New Delhi, after having won over Hamilton's (Canada)desire to do the same. The hosting of the games is going to bring about some major and positive changes to Delhi, and the Sports program in India. And one of the selling points was that the Bid Committee said India should have a chance to demonstrate the State of IT in India on the World Stage ...

Next on the agenda is to bid for the Olympics 2016 ... Just imagine the changes it will bring. China is hosting the 2008 Edition of the Olympics.

We did the site for the Commonwealth Games 2010, and I have put up an album of some photos of India here. This is an internal page that is not linked to from any other page as it was the database from which we were choosing our photos ...