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India's high-tech revolution
Struggles in India's high-tech revolution

India's Simputer, the award-winning computer for poor, illiterate farmers, has been launched but has yet to really take off.

The Simputer I saw in Bangalore looks like a lighter, slightly larger version of a hand-held PDA. You can write in any language and transmit the script. You can store and play music, annotate photographs and send them by email. It translates text to speech and works in a number of Indian languages. People can share the Simputer via a smart card, emphasising access rather than ownership.

The concept captured the imagination of those who want to address the digital divide, who feel the future is in innovating for "the bottom of the pyramid". This computer would address the needs of the 5 billion people who have been bypassed by the internet revolution. It was designed with users in mind, keeping their cultural context at the core.
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Software on the cheap
Tech Guide: Software on the cheap

Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.

There are many reasons why you might want to populate a system with free or low-cost software. You may be handing on a computer to a friend or relative, but need to retain the licensed software from that machine for your own use. Or you may be starting a business and want to keep costs down. Or you may suffer some computing disaster on the road and have to put together a working system in a hurry. In such a case you're unlikely to have the installation CDs and key codes for the expensive products you already own; and since you don't want to have to buy all your applications again, what you want is to assemble a system on a replacement notebook that works well enough to get you through to your return to the office.
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COMPUTERS COME TO RABI ISLAND
COMPUTERS COME TO RABI ISLAND

As published in our August Issue of 'Sigbits' near the end of August I spent 18 days on remote Rabi Island, part of the Republic of Fiji, but privately owned by the Banaban people. They were transported there in 1945, after WWII, rather than being returned to Banaba (also known as Ocean Island) which is in the Kiribati Group of Islands. Banaba itself is now mostly uninhabitable, having been mined extensively for phosphate fertilizer between 1900-1979.

The primary purpose of my visit was to donate and install some computer equipment in the Rabi High School (RHS) at Tabiang Village. I am glad to say that there was a good response to my previous 'SigBits 'article and to the speech given by my Banaban "niece", Luisa Sakabula, at the August Brisbug General Meeting, at the end of her three-month stay in Australia.
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