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Baramati awaits Negroponte.
Byline: Abhay Vaidya
PUNE: What does Prof Nicholas Negroponte have to do with an Indian farmer who used a rural information kiosk or a soochanayala to sell a cow for Rs 3,000?
Or, for that matter, how is he concerned with three widows from Haryana who used a Drishtee.com soochanalaya in their village, communicated with the district magistrate and expedited their pension dues?
Negroponte, who is internationally recognised as an IT visionary promoting the use of IT for poverty alleviation, will be the star attraction in Baramati on Saturday when he addresses the second annual Baramati Initiative on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Development.
A slew of Indian and international IT experts, visionaries, technologists and bureaucrats will deliberate for three days on a variety of possibilities relating to IT and upliftment of the poor.
They will also examine innovative rural e-commerce and e-governance and e-cooperative initiatives in India, along with e-education ventures for slum children and others from low-income groups.
Co-organised by MLA, Digital Partners and the Sharad Pawar-led Vidya Pratisthan's Institute for Information ...
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