Remote Communities

The tribals in central India are caught between the government and the Maoists. Perhaps for the first time media is openly writing about the serious problem. Me and co fellow David Lehr had the opportunity to spend two days in this area in December and swiftly passed through the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College.

Electronic Governance, in simplest terms, it refers to those governance processes in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are playing an active role in delivering governance related products and services.

Talking about making a difference, one of the most creative social entrepreneurial projects I have ever seen is a grand musical show "Impression Liu Sanjie" directed by Zhang Yimong, in Guilin, the southern part of China.

I reacted to the article and resonated with the last Nita Goyal's post on Brain Drain at the Digital Vision program. Let me convey my vision on the topic of the diaspora starting with three very close stories:

A bee takes the wealth from flowers and transforms it into honey for its community.

Drishtee is an organizational platform for developing IT enabled services to rural masses through a kiosk based revenue model. The services it enables include access to government programs and benefits, market related information, and private information exchanges and transactions.

This thing lists geographical location (latitude, longitude, province or region, etc.) for over 5 million towns, locations and geographical features like mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, etc.