Initiative helps farmers in rural India using OSS

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 27, 2008 4:05 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Samartha Vashishtha
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"India is like a long snake. While its head is moving into the twenty-first century, the tail is still in the sixteenth. And there are people all over its body." Those lines by computer guru Ed Yourdon sum up the inspiration behind Jagriti e-Sewa ("Jagriti" means "awakening" in Punjabi and "Sewa" means "service"), a non-governmental organization (NGO) that uses open source technologies to bring much-needed knowledge and advice to farmers in the Indian state of Punjab.

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