As a researcher... Study in Rural areas is interesting ... nothing is quite what it seems... ask a man his income, and he conveniently leaves out a zero.. There's a tamil saying "Eyes and Ears deceive, deep investigation leads to truth" ...
As a subject of research.. Now that i live in a village, I often think how it will be to have my life studied by outsiders.. what will i list as my problems.. what intervention will i seek ... how abt drawing a PRA map ...
As a business minded villager, In a world where water is sold at a price, in future, villagers might want to put a price tag on the information they provide to outsiders .. thats one idea I think we need to pursue through Village Information Centres ...
Talking of village infromation centres.. there's a Mission 2007 to take IT to villages. It supposed to be a team effort by Govt, NGOs and private companies. Perfect on paper - but on ground Its totally uncoordinated. lakhs of villages with no computers and few villages with multiple Information Centres.
Prof HKM would shout "Are you mad?" if we called these as information centres - better words to describe them would be children's computer centre or browsing centre. Let the experiment continue ..
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