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The Indian Info-Rickshaws

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the internet-to-go dept.

DoomDoom writes "CNN is running a story on how the Indian government is delivering health and educational services on a WiFi equipped rickshaw to the poorest of its citizens. It's a poetical union of a typical third world product with high-tech! Do you still think computing is unnecssary for the poorest of the poor?"

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  1. Where is the WiFi? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This seems more like a satelite connection to me- where's the WiFi in this article?

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  2. I could care less about poor people in India by Serveert · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe it's just me but there seems to be a lot of articles about technology helping poor people in India yet most slashdotters could probably care less.

    Just an FYI.

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  3. WTF I submitted the article and it got rejected by freedom_india · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF is happening?? I submitted the article 2 days back and you rejected it and now you are reposting it under CowboyNeal name????

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  4. Re:Hard Life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no she doesn't.

    she just abhors you.

  5. well intentioned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The whole idea seems well intentioned. The Indian Institute of technology guys are pretty smart and 6 rickshaws with beat up computers in them wont cost the earth. If each village has a webcam enabled PC with which villagers can consult a doctor in a far off city, that one reason alone is worth doing this for. Will this help reduce poverty? No. We Indians love being poor a little too much. Until we stop producing babies (especially in the northen states) in a production line, India WILL remain poor. Most of the rural Indians cannot get this simple fact through their thick heads. I know. I lived in India for 20+ years.