'Akshaya' for rural India
The Akshaya project, the country's largest rural wireless network,
helps bring the benefits of e-governance and utility services like basic
connectivity to individual households in Kerala. A look at how it was
managed in stages. by Akhtar Pasha
The state government of Kerala, not only content with administering the
most literate state in India, wanted to extend literacy efforts to the
Web, through e-literacy. And it fulfilled this desire through the
project 'Akshaya', which is now driven by the gram panchayats. …
