Field-Testing the Simputer in India
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.01.02 | 7:37 PM ET
Lincoln Kaye recently traveled to India to test the Simputer, a powerful, low-cost, palm-top that is intended as India’s home-grown answer to the “digital divide” in the country’s poorest and remotest villagers. Kaye wrote about his experiences bringing state-of-the-art technology to the Central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a tableau of mud-hut villages and forested hills, in a diary for Slate.