Ashish Saboo's presentation on Broadband Policy for education, healthcare and shared access –to effectively scale the and accelerate the economic benefits for communities held at Baramati, Maharashtra, India , 25th March, 2008

1. ICT for communities,
Scale Economic Benefits
Broadband Policy for education, Health care, Shared Access
To effectively scale accelerate the economic benefits for communities

2. Quotes
● “Make the system work on the least common denominator”
Shri Subhas Pani , Secretary Planning commission.
Question: are we inclusive ?
● “Revenue support requested for rural CSC was just 35% of what was
anticipated.”
Shri Jainder Singh, Secretary, Dept of Info Technology.
Question :
What can we do to unleash the entrepreneurial capability of our people ?
● Broadband Internet lets get started now
Presentation of Mr R Sivakumar MD, South Asia, Intel corp.
Question : Even after 4 years of the Broadband policy , we are yet to gear up?