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Grassroots Applications
J Satyanarayana
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What is a Grassroots Application?An Application that is
1. RELEVANT
2. ACEESSIBLE
3. AFFORDABLE &
4. SUSTAINABLE
… to the millions at the bottom of the pyramid
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Relevance Makes economic sense
Improves Agricultural Economics Improves rural livelihoods
Improves quality of life Provides better healthcare Improves functional literacy
Ensures social well-being Increases distributive justice
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Accessibility
Ubiquitous Within a distance, comparable to
that for workplace Assisted
Designed to be useful for illiterates Local Language Interface Available outside working hours Widely Known
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Affordability Free of cost or at low service charge
Half-a-day’s wages per month
Shared access Community Service Centres
Broadband to village at affordable cost AP’s ambitious project to provide 2 Mbps
to all villages in 65 weeks Rs 100 p.m per kiosk – always ON
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Sustainability Economic Viability of Basic
Infrastructure Public-Private-Partnership for backbone &
last mile Economic Viability of Delivery
Infrastructure Common Service Centres
Sustainable content Demand-driven content Entrepreneur-based Service-charge based
Technological Sustainability Open Standards essential Open Source quite desirable
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An experiment.. e-Sagu
Agricultural Information Dissemination System
Jointly implemented by DIT & IIIT, Hyderabad
Problems of 1000 Cotton Farmers in 3 villages addressed
Encouraging results in 1st year Methodology
Local Coordinators take digital pictures of each field every week
Send to Experts Group at Hyd through CD Advice sent over Internet
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