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Jacob B. Odame left a comment for Vivek Vaidyanathan

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Vivek Vaidyanathan replied to Mangin's discussion 'Virtual Discussion 1 (02/03 - 05/03)' in the group Low cost broadband access and infrastrucure

Low cost broadband is one of the essential prerequisites for achieving broadband growth. One of the obvious advantages that I can think of with the advent of low cost broadband access, especially in rural areas in India is that it will facilitate th…

March 5, 2009

Vivek Vaidyanathan replied to Mangin's discussion 'Virtual Discussion 1 (02/03 - 05/03)' in the group Low cost broadband access and infrastrucure

While the deployment of broadband access certainly does depend on technological breakthroughs, what is first required is the understanding that technologies are a public investment, which need to be embedded in democratically elected social institut…

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CSTEP

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http://www.cstep.in

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Researcher

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Research

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CSTEP’s mandate and vision is to undertake world-class research and analysis in chosen areas of engineering, science and technology and their intersection with policy and decision-making. Expertise includes materials science, information and communications technologies, energy and strategic domains.

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e-government, Policies and Regulation

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I was previously involved with research on e-governance. I still am involved in a small way through writings on the topic.

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At 4:21pm on March 19, 2009, Jacob B. Odame said…: Hi Vivek, there is currently a discussion in the Low Cost Information Access Devices group on Issues on Applying low cost information technologies to foster development . You are invited to make input to the discussions.

Many thanks,

Jacob