{"id":265,"date":"2008-03-06T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/internet-for-the-villages"},"modified":"2008-03-05T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T09:54:46","slug":"internet-for-the-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/internet-for-the-villages","title":{"rendered":"Internet for the villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2311498837_9ce50a9622_o.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2311498837_9ce50a9622_o.jpg\">This<\/a> is what the internet looks like for a village.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Question Box is a project from UC Berkeley&#8217;s Rose Shuman to bring some of the benefits of the information on the Internet to places that are too remote or poor to sustain a live Internet link. It works by installing a single-button intercom in the village that is linked to a nearby town where there is a computer with a trained, live operator. Questioners press the intercom, describe their query to the operator, who runs it, reads the search results, and discusses them with the questioner (it&#8217;s like those &#8220;executive assistant&#8221; telephone services, but for people who live in very rural places).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Question Box has been deployed live in Phoolpur village in Greater Noida, close to New Delhi and it was a stonking, smashing success, and will now be expanding further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/04\/question-box-the-int.html\">here<\/a>. See also the home page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionbox.org\/\">question box project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what the internet looks like for a village. The Question Box is a project from UC Berkeley&#8217;s Rose Shuman to bring some of the benefits of the information on the Internet to places that are too remote or poor to sustain a live Internet link. It works by installing a single-button intercom in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/india\/internet-for-the-villages\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet for the villages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}