09-07-2011, 03:05 PM
[attachment=14403]
INTRODUCTION
Even the poorest of the poor will pay for a service, if that service
improves in someway their quality of life. Several corporates are now
addressing rural markets and they have the need for information and
communication infrastructure in remote rural locations.
For achieving this the Simputer project was conceived during
the organization of the Global Village, an International Seminar on
Information Technology for Developing Countries, conducted during
Bangalore IT.com event in October 1998.[1]
If the right service is made accessible in the right way
information technology can impact the lives of the people all over the
world .The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which
the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in
the third world because it ensures that knowledge of English is no
longer a barrier to handling a computer. [1]
Simputer
Simputer’s About:
Bridging the Great Digital Divide
Affordable Computing: A device which can bring benefits of IT to
the people[7]
The key to bridging the digital divide is to have shared devices
that permit truly simple and natural user interfaces based on sight,
touch and audio. It is designed to be modular and extensible and based
entirely on free software from the open source initiative.
Developers
Simputer was developed indigenously by scientists from the
Indian Institute of Science and technologists of Encore Software. They
have started a commercial venture, PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd., to
ensure that it does not, like many other promising projects, remain on
the drawing board. The Simputer Trust is a non-profit trust created
basically to develop technology that will help take information
technology to rural areas. The Managing Trustee of the simputer trust is
Simputer is the legal counsel for the Simputer Trust and has played a key role in defining the Simputer General Purpose License.
Affordable Computing
The projected cost of the Simputer is about Rs 9000 at large
volumes. It uses all off-the-shelf components so they are mature
technology components that do not have a very high price.[4]
Simputer Vs Palm
Simputer is not a PDA, it is a lot more powerful than a typical
PDA; it has a 206 MHz RISC processor. The screen size is 320x240,
with memory of 32 MB RAM. It is a complete Linux machine, it runs
x-windows; we can run many x-applications by simply recompiling for
the ARM processor. We have xterm and xclock running on the
prototypes of the Simputer. [7]
INTRODUCTION
Even the poorest of the poor will pay for a service, if that service
improves in someway their quality of life. Several corporates are now
addressing rural markets and they have the need for information and
communication infrastructure in remote rural locations.
For achieving this the Simputer project was conceived during
the organization of the Global Village, an International Seminar on
Information Technology for Developing Countries, conducted during
Bangalore IT.com event in October 1998.[1]
If the right service is made accessible in the right way
information technology can impact the lives of the people all over the
world .The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which
the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in
the third world because it ensures that knowledge of English is no
longer a barrier to handling a computer. [1]
Simputer
Simputer’s About:
Bridging the Great Digital Divide
Affordable Computing: A device which can bring benefits of IT to
the people[7]
The key to bridging the digital divide is to have shared devices
that permit truly simple and natural user interfaces based on sight,
touch and audio. It is designed to be modular and extensible and based
entirely on free software from the open source initiative.
Developers
Simputer was developed indigenously by scientists from the
Indian Institute of Science and technologists of Encore Software. They
have started a commercial venture, PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd., to
ensure that it does not, like many other promising projects, remain on
the drawing board. The Simputer Trust is a non-profit trust created
basically to develop technology that will help take information
technology to rural areas. The Managing Trustee of the simputer trust is
Simputer is the legal counsel for the Simputer Trust and has played a key role in defining the Simputer General Purpose License.
Affordable Computing
The projected cost of the Simputer is about Rs 9000 at large
volumes. It uses all off-the-shelf components so they are mature
technology components that do not have a very high price.[4]
Simputer Vs Palm
Simputer is not a PDA, it is a lot more powerful than a typical
PDA; it has a 206 MHz RISC processor. The screen size is 320x240,
with memory of 32 MB RAM. It is a complete Linux machine, it runs
x-windows; we can run many x-applications by simply recompiling for
the ARM processor. We have xterm and xclock running on the
prototypes of the Simputer. [7]
