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Nature 415, 358-359 (24 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415358a
India online
K. S. Jayaraman1
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Abstract
A limited telephone network and low levels of literacy make it difficult to get information technology into India's rural areas. But as K. S. Jayaraman finds out, the country's engineers have developed some innovative solutions.
Bangalore may be the hub of a burgeoning information-technology industry, but the information superhighway peters out long before it reaches the villages of rural India. More than 80% of Indian villages have no telephone connection.
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