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Nifty: Women lead rural India's internet rush

The internet is beginning to have a revolutionary effect on the 700 million people who live in villages in India - and the charge is being led by women.

A project set up by one of India's leading technology institutes has put women in charge of forging the way across the digital divide as the proprietors of a fast-growing number of internet cafes or kiosks around the sub-continent.

In total 80% of these new kiosks are run by women, many of whom have had very little or no acquaintance with technology before.

Asha Sanjay, of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras that established the scheme, says that while in some places people are not able to get a bus to the next village, the net allows them to connect to the world.

Connetion to the world ... and it helps get telemedicine out to these rural areas. More info in the BBC article.

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