From ZDNet.... -ac
Rural India's rough road to computer literacy
Bringing the benefits of computer technology to rural villages in India will require a substantial amount of work--and a lot of extra car batteries, said professor Jitendra Shah.
Shah--who works in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an organization that develops supercomputers here--has launched a computer program designed to alleviate the grinding poverty found throughout the country.
In a pilot installation in a village near Mumbai, students use PCs, donated by Via Technologies, to perform geometry homework, while local women track their savings in a micropayment program. Later this month, college teachers from around India will take a three-week training course that will allow them to replicate the program in other regions.
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/121622.html
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