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Taking Information Technology to the Heart of India

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V. Lalith Kumar,

A. L. Suseela,

Akashdeep AharmaAuthors Info & Claims

Ubiquity, Volume 2005, Issue March

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1066348.1066321

Published: 01 March 2005 Publication History

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'Today we truly live in a global village, but it is a village with elite information 'haves' and many information 'have-nots.' With the new technologies available to us we have an opportunity to change this.' The following article is a student paper.

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{1.} Bhatnagar, Subhash and Robert Schware (2000), Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India, New Delhi: Sage Publications.

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{2.} www.emergic.org // TECHTALK: Transforming Rural India

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Taking Information Technology to the Heart of India
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing literacy

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