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India's Digital Village

Posted by timothy on from the bhoomi-town dept.

sirdude writes "Business Week has a pretty comprehensive story on the impact of projects such as Bhoomi, which are slowly but surely bridging the digital divide in rural India. With entrepreneurial initiatives such as e-choupal, Simputer, and a multitude of other privately-funded projects also beginning to take root, the rural Indian (who comprises about 70% of India's population), is slowly inching his way into the information age. The rest of the third world is watching & waiting, and taking detailed notes :)" And the parts about computerized land records may remind anyone who's read it of Hernando De Soto's The Mystery of Capital .

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  1. Taking notes ... by NigritudeUltramarine · · Score: 3, Funny
    The rest of the third world is watching & waiting, and taking detailed notes...
    ... by hand. ;-)
  2. well... by Spytap · · Score: 3, Funny

    This will work brilliantly until someone decides to outsource it to California...

  3. In other news... by terrymaster69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    BHOOMI patents the process of "online updation".

  4. Major error in text! by boaworm · · Score: 2, Funny
    OH My, they made a huge misstake. Dont we all know that it's not called "Indian", but "Native American" ??. The article SHOULD read:

    ...Simputer, and a multitude of other privately-funded projects also beginning to take root, the rural Native American (who comprises about 70% of India's population), is slowly inching his way into the information age.

    No wonder the USA is outsourcing to India, its just supporting it's native population!

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  5. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 2, Funny
    It incorporates the state of the art bio-logon metrics system from Compaq
    haha, Compaq. Those poor bastards are fucked.

    In any case, instead of simputer.org, maybe you wanted this instead? It seems simputer.org's tech specs are out of date. I'm drooling over the 4200.
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