'Akshaya' project to bridge digital divide

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from http://indev.nic.in/indev/profNewsItem.asp?id=174 ]

'Akshaya' project to bridge digital divide

By Our Special Correspondent , The Hindu / Sector(s) :: Information 
and Communications Technology
12/2/2002, News, Akshaya, digital divide, information technology

The 'Akshaya' project, envisages the establishment of 9,000 community 
information centres across the State as part of a campaign to bridge 
the digital divide. These centres are to be established through 
private initiative, with the objective of having one centre within 
two km of each household. The project would commence in Malappuram 
and Thiruvananthapuram in January 2003 and the entire State is 
proposed to be covered by May 2004.

Read more here 
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/11/17/stories/2002111704810400
.htm