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http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/31090p-526124c.html

Technology: Project seeks to bridge India's 'digitial divide'

By PALASH KUMAR, Agence France-Presse


NEW DELHI, India (June 22, 2001 11:11 a.m. EDT) - Online education and cyclone warnings for farmers at the click of a mouse are some of the features being touted by Media Lab Asia - one of India's most ambitious information-technology projects.

The project will be launched this weekend.

Set up in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, the $1.02 billion nonprofit project is aimed at meeting India's "grand challenges in learning, health and enterprise."...

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