talks at freed.in/2008 - Remote Management of Rural Telecentre Computers

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Organisation / Affiliation	Comat Technologies
Title of Talk	Remote management of rural telecentre computers
Talk Abstract	India is currently witnessing a race to setup rural information telecentres in every single village across the country. These are shops with a computer, printer and internet connection, delivering a variety of electronic services and serving as community interaction centres.Providing technical support to these centres is a significant challenge, given the limitations of traditional support infrastructure, whether roads or a reasonably competent techie in the nearest urban area.This talk will present an open source work-in-progress framework for remote management of these computers, supporting both Linux and Windows.
Relevance to freed.in/2008	The project is in use in Haryana and due to be deployed in UP and Uttaranchal, areas in physical proximity to Freed.in and its participants. The applicability of this project should be easily apparent to anyone from a non-urban background.While it was developed as an internal project, we are releasing it in the hope it will be useful to others, and that the familiarity of the use case will make it easier for developers to participate in, especially new developers seeking a project that will be relevant to the people around them.

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