IT Abroad:India

Avichal Singh- IT Abroad: ICT for Development (India)

My resources are listed at Resources by Country

Here is a rough outline, however I doubt I'll be able to cover all of it without makin it simply too lengthy, thus I'll probably have to restrict the scope.

1. Do Poor need ICT
   1. ICT is of no use to Poor
   2. ICT is the way to solve all problems
2. Challenges & Issues to use of ICTD
   1. Infrastructure
      1. Phone
   2. Collboration of Efforts
      1. Database
   3. Serving real needs (Top-down/Bottom-Up , Demand Based)
   4. The Ities’
      1. Sustainability
      2. Scalability/Replicability
      3. Measurability (Stats on success/failure)
   5. Other Issues
      1. Pockets of Progress
      2. Language (Software/Content)
      3. Local (Relevant) Content (???)
      4. Private Sector Involvement
      5. ICT = inequality (Should we Stay the course) (???)
      6. Information to the farmers/rural (???)
3. ICT4D Policy
   1. Intro - India Election change - eyeopener
   2. India Timeline & Players
   3. National ICT Strategy
      1. E-Gov
      2. Telecenters
   4. Policies of New Government
4. Conclusion (Stength)
5. Appendix
   1. Index of ICT projects

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