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Nine new documents :



- Rural Development with ICTs in Nepal: Integrating National Policy with Grassroots Resourcefulness

- Social Impact and Diffusion of Telecenter Use: A Study from the Sustainable Access in Rural India Project

- Gender and public access computing: an international perspective

- The Socio-Economic Impact of ICTs in Rural Iran

- E-Gram Project – A Public Service Telecentre Initiative of the Government of Gujarat

- Women's Economic… Continue

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5 new documents :

• 1-1 in Education Current practice, international comparative research evidence and policy implications

• Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture

• Making the Connection: Scaling telecenters for development

• Reaching the unreached : Community based Village Knowledge Centres & Village Resource Centres

• Can Technology End Poverty?

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from http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php

A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC.

“Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.”

It was April, 2004, and I was visiting a “telecenter” in the tiny village of Retawadi, three hours from Mumbai. The small, dirt-floored room, lit only by an open aluminum doorway, was bare

except for a…

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