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Developmental informatics at IIT Bombay

Published: 01 March 2007 Publication History

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IIT Bombay's Developmental Informatics Lab is a cross disciplinary group consisting of 6 faculty, 30 research staff and several students. The lab is working towards increasing access to information -- through the use of internet and communication technologies -- to communities in the developing world especially rural and small town India. The lab is supported by Indian Government funding sources as well as corporate and multi-lateral agencies to solve technical problems in local communities in sustainable ways. This paper focuses on two mature projects of the lab -- one caters to Indian farmers while another helps with the education of tribal populations.

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  • (2009)Designing interactive information access technologies for small scale rural indian farmersCHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1520340.1520486(3359-3364)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2009

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    cover image ACM SIGMOD Record
    ACM SIGMOD Record  Volume 36, Issue 1
    March 2007
    60 pages
    ISSN:0163-5808
    DOI:10.1145/1276301
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