> How are the perceived (or virtual) farmers good with > using computers in general? What do they find easy to > do? > > More graphical icons resembling a functionality -- > appears to be a good idea. The question is > connectivity? speed? network? and so on. Seems as if > the list would go on long. >
> There are lots of CSC(Common Services Center) centers now opening in India. > One such example is the Nemmadi project in Karnataka > http://nemmadi.karnataka.gov.in/ <http://nemmadi.karnataka.gov.in/>. All these centers are in the village > level. I believe in some 5 years time around 2 lack such centers will be > started in India. May be such sites can be used by farmers from such > telecenters. Connectivity , and network will be taken care of by the parties > involved in setting up the center. > Using computers can still be a challenge. May be the operator manning > telecenter can help farmers in getting information from such web sites. > Still have to see how farmers can start using forums. Wow - that has got to be one of the worst designed websites I have ever seen (viewed in firefox on ubuntu) - if this is the level of professionalism in interface design, I see really scary things ahead... :-( With re: to multilingual websites, its generally not a problem, yep, just read up on unicode a little - if you're hosting the server yourself, there's a few things you need to ensure, compile php to recognize unicode, etc. - if you're buying hosting space, gohindi.com seems like a good provider to support indian language sites.. Sorry this post has gone OT, especially this being the ubuntu list, but I had to comment after seeing that website - wow, the govt. needs some serious help... -Sanjay
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