Thank You James for sharing this.
The digital inclusion via Common Service Centre are primarily driven as utility providers
than information providers. An example would be, applying for driving license or election
card online and bypassing the inefficient government offices.
Wikipedia, as information provider can only supplement this initiative, only if
information is present in the person’s own native language. In India we work on more than
24 Indian languages, however this is just a very short journey.
Now coming to its significance so far, the content of articles for such initiatives are
either relatively poor or they do not even exist on many Indian languages. There are ample
of reasons for this, the editors base from urban, semi-urban areas and the misconception
about Wikipedia in these rural and other intervention areas. If one tracks down the new
readers survey, most people do not recognise Wikipedia to be an encyclopedia. Most find it
to be a social media, some newspaper, some just couldn’t classify.
Abhinav
मेरे iPad से प्रेषित
२९/०७/२०१८ को पू १०:०२ पर James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> ने लिखा :
Of considerable interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326141291_Towards_an_inclusive_dig…
"Policy makers can use this transformational model to extend the reach
and effectiveness of Digital Inclusion through the last mile enhancing
existing training and service centers that offer the traditional model
of Digital Literacy Education.... This education model can be
replicated and scaled by the Digital India program by extending the
reach of existing rural Common Service Centers centers to reach remote
areas that lack infrastructure, thereby reaching the last mile for a
transformative impact across the nation."
I was particularly impressed with Figure 4:
https://i.imgur.com/s30xY4C.png
Best regards,
Jim
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