Connecting rural India to the world

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2002
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CTA. 2002. Connecting rural India to the world. ICT Update Issue 9. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Connecting rural India to the world, New York Times, May 2000 Embalam, India - In this village at the southern tip of India, the century-old temple has two doors.
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Connecting rural India to the world, New York Times, May 2000 Embalam, India - In this village at the southern tip of India, the century-old temple has two doors. Through one lies tradition. People from the lowest castes and menstruating women cannot pass its threshold. Through the second door lies the Information Age, and anyone may enter. In a rare social experiment, the village elders have allowed one side of the temple to house two solar-powered computers that give this poor village a wealth of data, from the price of rice to the day´s most auspicious hours.
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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