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Discussions > IBM project Pyr.mea.IT - Permeating IT towards the Base of the Pyramid

John Graves

John Graves
437 days ago

This is not a specifically-education related project, but interesting nonetheless for the access it could help provide to free, on-line education resources in the developing world:

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/pyrmeait.index.html

utilizing the WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/arun_kumar.WWTW.html

One of the recent papers coming out of this project is:

Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Content Creation and Dissemination by-and-for Users in Rural Areas, In the proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), 17-19 April 2009, Doha, Qatar.

http://www.ictd2009.org/documents/ICTD2009Proceedings.pdf (page 56-65)

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