1. What new high impact technologies are on the 3-year horizon? Who
(exactly) needs to do what (concretely) to make those technologies
widely available?
It seems to me that most of the component technologies needed for
deploying ICT in rural areas are already in place. What really needs to
be
In India, we have the public call offices (PCOs) -- essentially manned
telephone booths where the revenues are shared between the telco and the
PCO operator. There are more than 600,000 of these PCOs across the
country. There are many Community Information Centres where one can
access the Internet
Has anyone on this list come across a deployment of ICT specifically
meant for powering computers in rural areas? I would be interested in
hearing about this.
Thanks,
Venky
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I am with Media Lab Asia (www.medialabasia.org) and we are exploring the
use of 802.11 technology for rural networks. However, we envisage these
as small village telcos that will be set up by rural entrepreneurs.
Decades of experience with Universal Service Obligation etc makes it
clear that the