Technology Area 2

There are heartening changes already happening in the technology area. You may already be aware of them but in case you're not, you can read about .....

The Simputer project to create low cost and smart card based personalized computers for rural as well as low-end urban markets:

http://www.simputer.org/simputer

The Open Source Foundation has much that we can leverage for the Indian market to ease the curse of dollar-denominated pricing of computing resources. Read this news about OpenOffice:

http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39130760,00.htm

Rajesh Jain has some great ideas on evolving technologies and how we can shape the technology future in India exploiting utility/ASP based trends. In this article he talks about the Rs. 5000 PC ecosystem:

http://www.emergic.org/collections/tech_talk_the_rs_5000_pc_ecosystem.html

A paper on e-learning technologies and what they can do for rural India:

http://www.cdac.in/html/pdf/Session2.3.pdf

Take heart from knowing that a lot of people are involved in efforts already. This from CDAC:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5700701.html

And this from HP Labs India and our public sector:

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/020514digitaldivide/pfindex.html

Renewable energy technologies and applications to improve power infrastructure in India in a socially responsible way:

http://www.teriin.org/division/eetdiv/reta/reta.htm

Medicine and life sciences on the offshoring bandwagon too:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11898

Acceleration of biomedical technology in India:

http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/movers/103111201.asp

On the advances sciences front, there's nanotechnology to consider:

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-17-05.asp

These are some random tidbits of information to chew on. There are a number of avenues that dedicated people are exploring. But there is a lot more still to do. All it needs is people like you to put their heads together .....