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40% of rural India may be able to come online by 2007

And this means more non-English speaking people coming online with a lot of thirst for indian language content.

Microsoft, Reliance Infocomm and kiosk agencies such as Drishtee have reportedly chalked out plans to set up PC kiosks in Indian villages.

The government has also planned to set up 100,000 kiosks in the country’s villages by December 2007.If all goes as planned, more than 40 per cent of India’s countryside will be logged on to the Web by ‘07-end, reports Economic Times.

At present, there are around 10,000 internet kiosks in rural India, most of which consist of ITC’s e-Choupals.

Meanwhile, Intel has announced its Jagruti initiative in a bid to support the spread of rural internet kiosks based on the new Intel-Powered Community PCs. These PCs would be available through Intel partners HCL and Wipro.

posted by Hitesh Parashar @ 11:54 AM