{"id":202,"date":"2007-09-17T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-17T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T16:59:00","slug":"access_to_information_in_rural_india_lww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2007\/09\/17\/access_to_information_in_rural_india_lww\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to information in rural India (LWW conference)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access to new technologies and services is a priority in India and Maitrayee Ghosh gave us a fascinating overview of the kinds of innovative projects which are taking place. I particularly liked the concept of the InfoThela or Infocart- a bicycle front end, with a battery powered information console behind, which works with a wireless connection to the internet and can be taken to small villages to provide general info, health care, agricultural info and much more. I&#8217;ll add a photo when I can get one. Maitrayee mentioned many other projects relating to agricultural information, telemedicine and the simputer, a cheap little computer for personal use. The digital divide in India is enormous, exacerbated by the number of different languages spoken in the rural areas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1237\/1379459747_ab6d561f21_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA street in Molyvos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to new technologies and services is a priority in India and Maitrayee Ghosh gave us a fascinating overview of the kinds of innovative projects which are taking place. I particularly liked the concept of the InfoThela or Infocart- a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2007\/09\/17\/access_to_information_in_rural_india_lww\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}