Umesh Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Friedman's interview in India :
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=72565&pn=2
And what is the mood in America. You think people are figuring it out or they are still blinded by
the combination of insecurity, anger, religion?
We are moving into the post-9/11 mood, I would argue, in America and there is a lot of angst right
now. About Iraqwhere its going, competition, education. I tell my kids, when I was young my
parents used to tell me, Tom, finish your dinner, people in India and China are starving. What
I tell my girls today is Girls, finish your homework because people in India and China are
starving for your jobs and in a flat world, they can have it.
And how fascinating, you brought your daughter along with you and shes now going to teach here.
Yes, shes going to teach in a vill! age school outside of Bangalore. I am re-exporting my daughter
because I want her to experience the country that I enjoy so much and also because it will help
her to be a globaliser with a human face.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:39:06 -0400
From: Rosalind Michahelles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: NY Times: Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet
Umesh, f.y.i.
this comes from an Ed.D. student in Lahore, Shabnam Khan.
Rosalind
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--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:46 PM +0500 Shabnam Syed Khan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hasan Usmani
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:12 PM
> Subject: NY Times: Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet
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> June 16, 2005
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> Plan to Connect Rural India to the Internet
> By JOHN MARKOFF
>
> SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 - An international consortium, including Indian
> and American companies as well as the World Bank, is planning to
> establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring
> government, banking and education services to isolated villages.
>
> The project, to be announced Thursday, is intended to bring
> Internet-based services to individuals who must often travel long
> distances to conduct banking or business with the government. It is being
> undertaken by Comat Technologies, an Indian provider of Internet
> services; ICICI Bank, India's second- largest commercial bank; and Wyse
> Technology of San Jose, Calif., which makes computer terminal equipment.
>
> The goal is to serve rural v! illages with populations of more than 5,000.
> Ultimately the plan calls for centers or kiosks in 5,000 villages in the
> state of Karnataka; Bangalore, the Indian high-technology center, is the
> capital of Karnataka.
>
> The project, subsidized by the state government, will include money to
> train residents in computer skills. It comes after some disappointing
> results of earlier efforts to bridge the digital divide, which separates
> the Internet-connected world from less-developed areas.
>
> The centers, connected to the Internet by either land lines or satellite
> links, are each to consist of 5 to 10 inexpensive "thin clients," simple
> computer displays that are more rugged and less expensive than personal
> computers.
>
> The project will begin with a technical demonstration in 4 villages, and
> then be extended to 20 others, according to Andi Dervishi, an investment
> of! ficer at the Global Information and Communication Technologies division
> of the World Bank.
>
> He said the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank would act
> initially as a nonfinancial partner but was hoping to be able to finance
> the growth of the project if the early trials go well.
>
> John Kish, the president and chief executive of Wyse, said thin clients,
> also called network computers, have long been held out as a promising
> low-cost way to deliver Internet content and computer services. The
> falling cost of PC's has until now made them financially unattractive.
>
> * Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
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>
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