On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to float up an NGO that will run by the philosophy of "If
> rural india won't go to wikipedia, take wikipedia to rural india".
>
> Here is a mail I'd written to Wikipedia. Please go through and let me know
> how you
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Parthan SR wrote:
> Wow, hearing something similar to what I have been with (through
> my employer) for the past 2 years :) We operate Rural Telcenters,
> or Technology Enabled Rural Kiosks, all over Karnataka and few
[snip]
> their utility bills. They want a plac
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to float up an NGO that will run by the philosophy of "If
> rural india won't go to wikipedia, take wikipedia to rural india".
>
> Here is a mail I'd written to Wikipedia. Please go through and let me know
> how you
Suraj Kumar wrote:
Ideally, we would have a computer kiosk where people can access wikipedia.
But besides Internet connection and Computer Literacy being limiting factors
there are other practical problems of Rural india - Frequent power supply
failures, 'fear' amongst rural india's peoples to us
hai,
I have a few questions, whats the model based on. who is going to put in money?
how are you going to convince villagers and NGO's to contribute?
what is the unique knowledge that villages possess that is absent in towns and
cities?
>.Ideally, we would have a computer kiosk where
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> --- On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> | There is an NGO worker in this library.
> \--
>
> Just make sure that this *person* is easily approachable by everyone
> in the village, and does not turn out to be a g
Hi,
--- On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote:
| There is an NGO worker in this library.
\--
Just make sure that this *person* is easily approachable by everyone
in the village, and does not turn out to be a gatekeeper of any sort.
My best wishes for the project,
SK
--
Shakthi
