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Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 14:13

Anthropologists on fieldwork for Microsoft in India

RedNova News / Seattle Post - Intelligencer

Microsoft Corp.'s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries.

A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India, plans to employ anthropologists, ethnographers and others to observe and document the lives of people in India's rural villages.

A primary aim of the new group is to help Microsoft understand the situation in rural villages before the company tries to create appropriate technologies for them - rather than first creating the technologies and then trying to find areas where they might apply. >> continue


SEE ALSO:
Microsoft hires five anthropologists (Inc Magazine, june 2004)
antropologi.info's special on Corporate Anthropology

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