Plan to connect rural India to the Internet

An international consortium plans to establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring services to isolated villages.
The New York Times

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A vision for The OS/2 Warp or eComStation - Kiosk

This development is very, very interesting. Given the interest of "Comat Technologies, an Indian provider of Internet services; ICICI Bank, India's second-largest commercial bank; and Wyse Technology of San Jose, Calif., which makes computer terminal equipment."... It will appear that that the Nick Morrow article (see attached link):

"In its heyday, OS/2 made its best market penetration in segments where it was the superior solution in some way. Look at ATM's. On properly selected hardware and given a *specific* job to do it worked wonderfully. As an os for Fidonet systems which required minimum downtime and very efficient multitasking it had significant market success. Note that in both the APM and Fidonet markets the WPS was not the factor that attracted users as VIO apps were the standard in both markets.

Give the world *superior* solutions to specific problems at a good price and marketing becomes doable."

http://en.ecomstation.ru/showarticle.php?id=130

The above indeed has some merit; not only in relation to the Indian project implementation; but, throughout the under-developed regions of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and other parts of the world in general. Great ideas!

;-)