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Quiz
ICT for poor
A number
of not-for-profit and for-profit initiatives have been taken in India to
bridge the digital divide and make the technology accessible to remote and
rural areas. Let us check.
- This is an Ahmedabad, Gujarat-based non-governmental organisation
(NGO), What is SRISTI and what is the name of the well-known network
with which is it associated?
- What is TARAhaat?
- If it helps people in the poorest and the most backward districts of
India, what is PACS programme and where is it being implemented?
- If it claims to be an organisational platform for developing
information technology (IT)- enabled services to rural masses through a
kiosk-based revenue model, called soochnalayas, what is Drishtee?.
- If it claims to have already become the largest initiative among all
Internet-based interventions in rural India, what is e-Choupal?
- If these are village information kiosks with a difference as most of
these kiosks are located in the houses of farmers, what are Parry
corners?
- If lamps have been lit in Tamil Nadu to dispel the darkness of
ignorance and bring the light of knowledge, what are n-Logue Chiraag
kiosks?
- If this programme offers Internet connectivity, among others, and is
going to be implemented in 5,000 rural clusters in India in next five
years, what is PURA programme?
- If this small town in Maharashtra called Baramati has gained
international prominence for its deliberations on the potential of ICT
for development, what is Baramati initiative?
- If the weavers of this state have been helped by two software products
– Auto Tex 2000 and Auto Tex 5.6 – to almost double their carpet
exports, what is the name of the state?
- If this well-known NGO active in Gujarat since 1972 for empowerment of
women will receive 400 computers free of charge for use by it and some
schools in Gujarat, what are the names of the NGO and the organisation
donating the computers?
- If this Hyderabad-based NGO offers collateral-free credit to women at
their doorsteps through handheld computers and smart cards, what is SKS?
- If this well-publicised wired village project in Maharashtra is
helping the sugarcane farmers in improving the efficiency of the
sugarcane production through village information kiosks, what is the
name of the project?
- If this lab claims to be innovating for the next five billion, is
headquartered in Mumbai, and it has designed a software called Hisaab
(meaning accounts in Hindi) for micro finance institutions (MFIs) in
rural areas a la Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, what is the name of the
lab?
- If 14 mutually aided cooperative societies ( MACS) have gone online
for the first time in Andhra Pradesh and have adopted the
state-of-the-art Financial Accounting and Management Information System
(FAMIS), who developed the FAMIS software?
- If the Viswa Gram project was launched in Gujarat at Timbi Gram
Panchayat of Umarala taluka of Bhavnagar district on January 18, 2004,
who designed its software?
- Who started the Information Village Research Project in village
Villianur, Pondichery in 1998?
- If this project is called the Gramdoot project, not to be confused
with the Gyandoot project in Madhya Pradesh, which private company has
launched it, and in which state has it been launched?
- If this Working Group constituted by Government of India in May 2000
recommended launching of information technology (IT) yatras (journeys),
what is the name of the Working Group?
- If, the former Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee,
inaugurated a toll-free call centre for Indian farmers on January 21,
2004, what number did he dial?
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