Buses drive internet into rural india!

By Rajiv Dingra • March 30, 2007

Have you wondered what the rural india would like to surf on the web? would they want t learn english? would they want to increase their knowledge on microfinance? Are they looking to do business???

None of the above…

Internet in the rural india is needed to bridge the digital divide but the usage of internet is for different reasons. According to Amir Hasan of United Village "They want to know the cricket scores, they want to see the new Aishwarya Rai photos, and they want to hear a sample of the latest Bollywood tunes."

United Village is a to provide two billion people living in rural areas of developing countries with an email address, a phone number, and Web access using wifi buses.

"There’s only 0.003% percent of the web that rural India cares about," Amir Hasan told BBC News.

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Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv is a prolific blogger who has over 1000 blog posts to his credit at WATBlog. The Founder & CEO of WATMedia our parent company and the Chief Blogger at WATBlog, he has been the driving force of the WAT Evolution. Rajiv does some excellent analysis of the digital media industry in India and often brings out deep insights with his inimitable style of interviewing. Just mail rajiv|at|watblog|dot|com and it will reach him..

2 Responses to “ Buses drive internet into rural india! ”

Amit Ranjan Mar 31st, 2007 at 11:31 am

Hi Rajiv,

Just checking out your blog..actually I realized that I am not getting the email RSS of your blog for quite some time now…is it some problem with feedblitz?

amit
Rajiv dingra Apr 1st, 2007 at 8:15 pm

The email newsletter are going. Ill still check. Thanks for pinging..