Enabling ICT for rural India - Study on impact of ICT projects

Rafiq Dossani, D.C. Misra, Roma Jhaveri assess the impact of various ICT projects in rural India. They conclude that all the projects are still experimenting with how best to serve rural users through ICT. None has yet had a widespread socio-economic impact or even developed a catalytic, replicable approach. Nevertheless, there are successes and failures, good and bad practices and local demand to learn from in order to help frame the recommendations. Read the compete report : http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/enabling_ict_for_rural_india_2005/