SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association

Project Brief: Large scale computer usage for poverty alleviation
Project Type: Community Based Interventions (description)
Primary Focus: vocational training (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Yale
Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Ajay Dalmia
Co-Steward: Hitten Zaveri
Project Partner(s): Reema Nanavaty
Project Address: SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association
Gujarat
Stewarding Chapter: Yale
2002YaleUSD 6453

Total = $6453

This project seeks to understand the challenges involved in introducing IT-based solutions for alleviating rural poverty and illiteracy and creating a scalable paradigm that will serve as a blueprint for bridging the digital divide between the developed and the developing worlds. 375 computers will be installed in the villages (with SEWA membership) of 11 rural districts of Gujarat, India. SEWA members will employ them for multiple purposes including improved communication within SEWA, access to information and markets, administrative and design tasks for SEWA collectives, vocational computer training of SEWA members and computer based education for children in government schools. A big part of the success in the effective use of the computers by the SEWA members is setting up the training and maintenance infrastructure.