India's Digital Village

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 1, 2004 @06:22PM 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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Re:Taking notes ... by UserAlreadyExists · 2004-07-01 20:56 · Score: 0, Troll

Now, if only they could read...

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awsome by koan · 2004-07-02 01:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Let's send them the rest of our jobs.

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