Digital Dividend Digest vol. 13 December
4, 2002
CONTENTS
1. ITC Ltd's e-Choupals First in New Series
of "Quick Look" Case Studies
2. What Would YOU Like to See in the "Quick
Look" Series?
3. New in the Digital Dividend Clearinghouse:
Projects from the Media Lab Asia
4. Make the Clearinghouse Work For You!
Search by Managing Organization
1. ITC Ltd's e-Choupals First
in New Series of "Quick Look" Case Studies
Released today, "ITC Ltd's e-Choupals: Backward Integration
as a Forward-Looking Strategy for India's Rural Markets" describes
Indian conglomerate ITC Ltd's efforts to increase shareholder
value and social good at the same time, through a network
of Internet access points reaching over a million farmers
in 9,000 villages. The "win-win" business model helps ensure
its sustainability, while also making it highly scalable.
Find out more 
Digital Dividend's new "Quick Look" case studies are ideal
for people who need the What Works series' high-quality ICT-for-development
business model analysis in short, focused formats. "ITC Ltd's
e-Choupals" is the first of four "Quick Look" studies planned
for winter 2003.
2. What Would YOU Like to
See in the "Quick Look" Series?
Our goal is to document and disseminate best practices information
that will be helpful to you, as IT-for-development practitioners.
What organizations or enterprises would you like to see in
future "Quick Look" case studies? What do you think are the
most promising business models-sustainable, scalable, and
replicable, with significant social impact?
Send your suggestions to dividends@wri.org…
we will publish the results in our next issue of the Digital
Dividend Digest!
3. New in the Digital Dividend
Clearinghouse: Projects from the Media Lab Asia
Ten new projects have been added to the Clearinghouse since
our last edition of the Digest. Among them are four new initiatives
from Media Lab Asia:
 Infothela: The Infothela is a pedal-driven,
Internet-connected computer on wheels for use in India's villages.
Learn
more
Infothela Medical Applications:
Researchers are designing applications to be used with the
Infothela to improve health standards in rural India. Learn
more
Community Access to Sustainable Health
(Ca:sh): The Ca:sh project is using handheld computers
to track disease and improve maternal and child health in
rural India. Learn more
Digital Gangetic Plains: The project
is demonstrating the applicability of 802.11b to rural connectivity
by installing wireless access points in the Kanpur-Lucknow
corridor. Learn more
*Media Lab Asia is the world's largest academic research program
dedicated to bringing the benefits of new technologies to
the millions of people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America
who require them most. Other MLA projects already in the Clearinghouse
include Digital Mandi, HISAAB, Sustainable Access in Rural
India (SARI), Baatchit, GramChitra, and DakNet.
4. Make the Clearinghouse
Work For You! Search by Managing Organization
Looking for projects from a specific managing organization
like Media Lab Asia? Go to the Clearinghouse Search page and
scroll down to "Managing Organizations." You can type all
or part of the organization name you're looking for into the
keyword box and hit "find," or click on Managing Organizations
for a complete alphabetical list. Then simply check the organization
you're interested in, and hit "Go!" at the top of the page.
Try it!
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