The Economist Technology Quarterly, March 12^th 2005, Behind the Digital Divide,19.

Questions:

1)      The Village Knowledge Centre and medieval living conditions : prioritise how the world’s development resources should be spent.

2)      How to evaluate the role of ICTS in rural India : what are the development priorities? Explain the notion of “rusting tractors”, a reference well known by development experts.

3)      Can investment in ICTS help development?

4)      Explain “providing information or the proverbial ‘last mile”.

5)      What are old fashioned sources of information? How could they be useful too? What happened in Veerapatinam.