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Internet and development in India

Published on August 20, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, development empowerment, internet, technology

CNN/ CBS News

— For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.

Designed like temple carriages that bear Hindu deities during festivals, the brightly painted pedal-cart rolls into her village in India’s most populous state, accompanied by a computer instructor who gives classes to young and old, students and teachers alike.

The bicycle cart is the center of a project called “Infothela,” or info-cart. It aims to use technology to improve education, health care and access to agricultural information in India’s villages, where most of the country’s 1.06 billion people live. >> continue

(via Danny Yee’s Blog)

CNN/ CBS News

-- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.

Designed like temple carriages that…

The Impact Of A Small-scale Irrigation Project On Gender In West Bengal Terai

Published on August 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, books, development empowerment, gender

The Hindu

“COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION” and “Community managed and government supported” approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest in women and water management issues.

This book attempts a historical analysis of gender by describing the prominent role played by women in the Tehbaga and Naxalbari agrarian peasant movements that swept the three districts of the small-scale irrigation projects. The volume should contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate in women’s studies and feminist anthropology on how to achieve an optimal “gender planning” with the aim to strengthen and/or to empower women in developmental interventions. >>continue

The Hindu

"COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION" and "Community managed and government supported" approaches are buzzwords in the realm of development cooperation. The discourse on gender analysis in development planning has contributed to an increasing interest in women and water management issues.

This book attempts…

Crop Diversity Continues Thanks to Modern, Traditional Practices

Published on June 22, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, development empowerment, ecology nature

UC Davis News

Peruvian peasants, Italian consumers and California peach farmers are all helping to promote crop diversity in unexpected ways, says a UC Davis anthropologist who studies agriculture >>continue

UC Davis News

Peruvian peasants, Italian consumers and California peach farmers are all helping to promote crop diversity in unexpected ways, says a UC Davis anthropologist who studies agriculture >>continue

Migration and development – a report from Tonga

Published on June 6, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, development empowerment, migration, Pacific Oceania

New Zealand Herald

Millions of dollars pour out of New Zealand every year. Remittance, the practice of migrant Pacific Islanders sending money and goods back home, is deeply ingrained in the culture. Remittances as no different from aid, albeit less effective. The money goes on daily needs, school fees, church conferences, consumables and capital development like building houses >>continue

New Zealand Herald

Professor studies society’s poor by picking through trash

Published on May 22, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, development empowerment, Northern America, politics, Us and Them

Free Detroit Press

How do poor people or street people meet their basic needs in the world’s wealthiest nation? “We think of the world as being increasingly mean-spirited and competitive, but here were homeowners and small-business owners and homeless folks and the poor cooperating in a way to redistribute useful materials”, said Prof. Jeff Ferrell >> continue (updated with copy)

Free Detroit Press

How do poor people or street people meet their basic needs in the world's wealthiest nation? "We think of the world as being increasingly mean-spirited and competitive, but here were homeowners and small-business owners and homeless folks and…