✔ Business: new opportunities
✔ Finance: capital to invest
✔ Government: services & programs
✔ Health: informed, consistent care
✔ Education: personal advancement
•3 billion people in the rural developing world
•need the same information we do
[Tapan Parikh, UW and UCB]
Using IT for delivering various service to the rural developing world

Rural people have many important information needs that are not being served