Dear Luggies
Arunai Engg College, Tiruvannamalai is organising an International
Conference on Information Technology for Rural Development from
29th Aug to 31 Aug 08.
Thiagu and me visited their college on 25 jul 08 and had discussion
with management,faculty and students on how ILUGC can participate
in it.
We have broadly identified the following areas
1.Village GIS system: This will use the openstreetmap to provide
all information like vao office, schools etc.
2.Agri/botanical information. The details about the crop, soil
and other such information to be aggregated using some tool.
3.Women self help group, their activities, how to start, what
are the products produced, credits etc.
4.Veterinary information system: The detaills of live stock,
their dieseases etc.,
5. Primary health info system like immunisation, sanitation
etc.
6. Tele health : enabling consultation with specialist remotely.
7. Bridging digital divide using Lowcost computing in rural schools
with ltsp based thin clients
8. Computer aided learning using educational software like gcompris
kstars etc.
9. Computers in local language
For 2-5 we have to think of proper tool - may be wiki like.
Students have suggested few
10. A remotely operated system with some wifi technology to control
irrigation channel, switching on/off the pumpsets etc.
12. Some kind of web based aggregation tool to provided rural related
data from various websites.
Suggestions are welcome. Please keep in mind following constraints
a.Time is short less than 30 days, so only what is possible
within the time should be aimed at.
b.We have to involve their students and get things done or do it
ourselves
c.We have to visit atleast twice before the event to guide
the students, though most guidance can be over net - but net
penetration isn't very high.
d.We need atleast 20 physical volunteers
Needless to say we talking about FOSS based tools/work only.
Raman.P
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