PCs not the best vehicles for providing IT-delivered services to rural areas


Posted on August 17, 2009  /  0 Comments

The sixth edition of the “Telecenter Debates” published by Telecenter Magazine presents a debate on whether or not the PC is the best vehical for providing IT-related services to rural areas. Rohan Samarajiva presents an article against this assertion, using evidence from the Teleuse@BOP3 study, to state that “mobiles, not PCs, have the potential to be best vehicles for delivering services to rural areas in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the world’s largest concentration of poor people”.

Read the full article here.

The PC is the best vehicle for
providing IT-delivered services to rural areas

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