From ashish@mithi.com Sun Dec 22 12:39:32 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:52:41 +0530
From: Ashish Kotamkar 
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To: gkd@phoenix.edc.org
Subject: [GKD] Akshaya Project to Bridge Digital Divide 

Akshaya' project to bridge digital divide
The Hindu, Nov 17, 2002
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/11/17/stories/2002111704810400.htm

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM NOV. 16. The 'Akshaya' project, to be inaugurated by
the President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, on Monday, envisages the
establishment of 9,000 community information centres across the State as
part of a campaign to bridge the digital divide.

These centres are to be established through private initiative, with the
objective of having one centre within two km of each household.

The project would commence in Malappuram and Thiruvananthapuram in
January 2003 and the entire State is proposed to be covered by May 2004.

As part of the project, one person from each family will be trained to
enable him to use the computer for day-to-day communication and
information needs. The training, which would be on Windows platform,
would cover basic word processing skills (using wordpad), use of
spreadsheet (Excel) and accessing of Email and Internet......

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