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This community will bring out information on new and existing projects conducted worldwide to help develop, exploit and use any technologies for the educational and economic upliftment in various regions of India. This community will also highlight important items from different blogs, internet sites and articles on teaching information literacy skills to various communities in India.
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TRIPADVISOR ARRIVES IN INDIA – ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF FIRST INDIA SURVEY ON “DREAM TRAVEL”
Jay Bhatt | August 22
"TripAdvisor®, the world’s largest travel community that enables people around the world to plan and have the perfect trip, today announced the launch of its local Indian site (www.tripadvisor.in)"
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Infonetics Research Reveals India Crucial to WiMAX Growth
Jay Bhatt | August 22
"The Infonetics Reseach report, “WiMAX Network Equipment and Subscribers Market Outlook,” covers targeted regions and countries around the world that have strong potential for fixed and mobile WiMAX markets, either because they have huge populations, or the broadband demands of the population are...
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Mobile Phones To Support Healthcare In Rural India
Jay Bhatt | August 9
"Ericsson and Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF), a part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, the Indian healthcare powerhouse, have taken a major step towards helping bridge the digital divide in rural India by laying the foundation for the introduction of mobile health services....
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Accessbility India : Technology that helps people with disabilities - Visit Techshare India
Jay Bhatt | August 9
"Techshare India 2008 Road Show brings you an opportunity to meet eminent speakers those have expertise in the area of accessibility, assistive technology and disability."
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Teach India: 'Invest in education for a better tomorrow'
Jay Bhatt | August 1
"Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation, is also a firm believer in the power of education. In a conversation with Radha Venkatesan, he points out that India’s one billion people are its greatest resource — but they need to be educated and inspired."
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Call to ban commercialisation of education
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Educationists say privatisation of education cannot be for profit-making purposes in India.
-Private sector not a solution to problems of quantity, quality
- It could create imbalance among various streams of learning
- Concern over access to the marginalized sections
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By: Anita Joshua, Hindu Times
May 11, 2006 | Community: Information Initiatives in India | [more]
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Redefining the Digital Divide
By: Subhajit Basu, Queen's University Belfast | April 18, 2007
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| Hi-tech hypesters claim that the Digital Age is vastly improving the lives and opportunities of people around the globe, while public-interest hand-wringers worry that it is creating a Digital Divide - an enormous and growing gap between the "technology-rich" and the "technology-poor," threatening social and economic stability and progress. Who is right? |
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ICT FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED
By: Muriyankulangara Ananthakrishnan, KReSIT | July 21, 2006
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| "Going further, one needs to add yet another category, the “facility-challenged”! These are the people in the villages and their children in the village schools, located far away from humanity…not only in terms of distances but also in terms of concern shown by the people in power and the… privileged!" |
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E-commerce and the law: a review of India’s Information Technology Act
By: Subhajit Basu and Richard Jones, QUB and LJMU | June 1, 2006
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| Electronic commerce – conducting business through network technology – is no longer confined to developed nations. Countries like India, with its hugely skilled labour force, have exceptional opportunities to benefit from e-commerce. However India’s 2000 Information Technology Act is over-complex and risks hindering the development of e-commerce in India.
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Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries
By: Jay, Bhatt | May 27, 2006
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| This article discusses how RSS feeds from numerous electronic databases and journals can be used to keep uptodate with new research in scientific disciplines by faculty and students in academic environments.
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Employee empowerment at workplace using ICT
By: Kris Dev, Life-Line to Business (LL2B) | November 12, 2005
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| e-Administration is a e-Governance tool for improved productivity adopted by a few Government organizations, to improve service level to citizens. |
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Digital divide: can it be bridged?
By: Indiatimes - Infotech, The Times of India | October 3, 2005
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"IT developed with the desktop, moved on to mobile phones, and now it’s the turn of the laptop. A laptop revolution is already set to address education system of third-world countries. A coalition of high-tech luminaries is designing a $100 laptop, aiming to bring equal technology opportunities to children in the developing world.
The mission is to make laptops as ubiquitous as cell phones in technology-deprived regions. Having seen the changes that can be wrought with a bit of IT infrastructure, Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the MIT’s Media Lab, UK is spearheading a project that’s designed to put laptops in the hands of elementary-school students by driving the cost of a barebones machines down to less than $100.
But bridging the digital divide between the rich and poor countries is not just about making a cheap product; it is also about making it usable in areas that have unstable electricity supplies, poor transport systems, and a few trained computer technicians.
"Who are the key persons involved in the $100 laptop project?
The three principals at MIT are faculty members at the Media Lab: Nicholas Negroponte (a founder of the Lab), Joe Jacobson (serial entrepreneur, co-founder and director of E Ink), and Seymour Papert (one of the world's leading theorists on child learning).
Three corporate partners have committed an initial $2 million a piece to the initiative and pledged to serve as suppliers for the "one laptop per child" project. These partners are Advanced Micro Devices, which will bring expertise in processors, search engine Google; and News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's media company with global satellite capabilities."
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Digital divide: can it be bridged?
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Open-Access Initiatives in India
By: T. B. Rajashekar, National Centre for Science Information, India | August 16, 2005
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| There are two components to this presentation. The first focuses on the relevance of open-access publishing in developing countries; the potential for open-access publishing in India; and a few current open-access initiatives in India. The second component proposes a possible technical model to organize open-access publishing in India.
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Open-Access Initiatives in India
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Save the society from an AIDS epidemic: Indian Public libraries in the current perspective
By: Maitrayee Ghosh, Indian Institute if Technology, Kanpur, India | August 14, 2005
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Today Indian society is at high risks. AIDS-the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced
become a conflagration on the Indian sub continent and nearly six million people in the country are
estimated to be HIV-positive. There is a felt need for providing health information services through public
libraries to the illiterate rural population in India, who are increasingly making themselves vulnerable to HIV /AIDS. Today’s challenge is to reinvent the public libraries to respond to community needs and
explores the avenues created by ICT enabled networking processes in providing HIV/AIDS information to unprivileged population in India. It concludes with a number of recommendations that are intended to address the core problems and thereby improve the overall situation.
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"“Info-Thela” project of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur:
A project called "Info-thela," or “info-cart” aims to use wireless technology to disseminate health information and improve health care in India's villages, where most of the country's 1.06 billion people live. It aims to improve public health by facilitating the flow of health information,
using the Internet. The core elements of the project are content, Internet connectivity and capacity building. The Info-thela cart has a specially designed frame and cushioning to protect the computer and accessories from the bumpy ride. The mobile platform is necessary to reduce cost of ownership because the resources are shared by a larger population. It is also necessary to push information to women
and elderly people who can't travel outside their village."
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Technology in schools -children and computers
By: J. Shankar, Azim Premji Foundation, India | July 13, 2005
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"We have just started on the journey to leverage technology for making Learning Play, Assessment Fun and for providing Equal Knowledge for rural and urban children. In this pioneering journey, we need to change directions based on research findings on our program and learning from other similar programs. Our end objective in the use of technology is to enhance learning in elementary schools. We believe that we can ignite the desire in the child to learn. We believe that a learning child will be the foundation for establishing a just, equitable and humane society."
Author: J. Shankar is Head, Technology Initiatives, Azim Premji Foundation, India. |
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What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It?
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 7, 2004
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| You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with either the words RSS or XML on them. And when you click on them, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? What exactly is RSS, and how can it improve the way I use the Internet? |
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Cybercast - Tech India Update
Jay Bhatt | March 08, 2007
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| Across the connected world, there has been revolution that is taking shape. Cybercasts, or popularly referred to as podcasts, are changing the ways information is presented and consumed. Tech India Update (TIU) is the first such tech cybercast from Indian shores. In the upcoming weekly episodes... |
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Kalam Exhorts U.S., Indian Scientists to Work Together
Jay Bhatt | June 17, 2006
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| When President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressed a standing-room-only audience on the UCSD campus May 31, he was there but he wasn't there. High-definition cameras at the presidential palace in New Delhi captured his image and the video signals were transmitted over a dedicated network of optical... |
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WHAT WORKS: AKASHGANGA'S IT TOOLS FOR THE INDIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Jay Bhatt | June 11, 2006
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AKASHGANGA’s success demonstrates the potential of information technology to impact livelihoods in poor, rural communities. AKASHGANGA’s experience indicates that even illiterate or semi-literate people can adopt IT-based systems when they see tangible benefits and when the systems... |
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