Open source is a punch of the others say charisma (founder creator and gurus), hierarchy or close knit group of developers based on trust and markets (the bazaar scenario of different wares) for the software products but the most enduring feature of the OSS dev is the altruism and world-wide culture it embraces and enhances ...

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The greatest administrators do not achieve production through constraints and limitations. They provide opportunities.

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes wide open.

On a lighter side,
By book spies, to take pics of sleazy books.
Young kids looking at young girls.
Some one also used the camera to catch a culprit a couple of months back.
Everything comes with two-sides..... its just the way people use technology.

I also found a good number of bloggers using the cell phone cameras to give a visual touch to their thought about an incident that they are describing (like Jivha posting the rickshawala with his mobile phone, on his site)

It would be very useful to have a text scanner mode built into the mobile-camera so that one can scan it over any printed information like addresses and phone numbers and save them for later use.

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I work as a Halifax Real Estate Agent in Nova Scotia, Canada and my online friends told me that blogs were discussions on specific topics which made me interested in searching specifically for a real estate blog. So being new to the computer, I did a search in the search engines on a "professional real estate blog" and I found your professional web blog. It is a very interesting way to see what trends and technology are happening in the real estate market in other parts of the world besides Halifax. I am considering a blog for myself if I can understand the technology of operating a blog and from what I see I am somewhat hesitant right now even though it was interesting reading.

Respectfully yours
James B. , a Halifax Real Estate Agent

The Dutch have the worst luck dont they? Firs the tulips, then this. I agree that the emphasis on the pockets of progress you find in India are largely in the urban sectors. My question is that is the problem with the people (read entrepreneurs) who want to make money as quickly and efficiently as they can, which just happens to be in the ubran markets, or is there a much larger issue here which inlcudes the mindset, the politics, lack of decisive policy making etc etc ?

In response to Abhimanyu's question, "is the problem with entrepreneurs" my position is a definite no. Entrepreneurs must be as rational, if not more, as any other people. They will go where they perceive the greatest profits. It is undeniable that the easy pickings are in urban areas. One cannot fault them for doing what you or I would do. The fact is that rural India is a hard place. Why it is so is a very involved matter. However, the short answer is that rural India is abyssmally poor. Doing business in areas of abject poverty is not recommended. But then what about the incredible business opportunities that we keep hearing about from certain management gurus? My advice for anyone who cares is "Don't buy that line." Or at least don't buy that line without also understanding that there are no easy ways of doing business in rural India. You have to create the conditions that enable you to do business in rural India.

But creating conditions for doing business in rural India is like creating a public good. And we all know what that means: no private incentive to create a public good because private parties cannot internalize the positive externalities of a public good. The answer is also well known: internalize the positive externalities. How this can be done I have outlined in the a simple model for rural development called RISC. (Pardon me for the plug for RISC.)

Atanu

Some wishful thinking and broad generalizations:

I am increasingly convinced that it is very hard to change rural india without changing the way development aid is disbursed in rural India. I am told that Panchayat has often been successful in improving the rural infrastructure; but from what I can see, Central disbursement and control of resources have often produced the greater good.

I grew up in Andaman islands and the difference in quality of between what central administration of development resources in Andamans achieved and what efforts in West Bengal (where we originally come from) achieved, is striking (this is of course anecdotal evidence. But what I have seen in the neighbouring states of Bihar and UP tends to support my hypothesis).

I would also argue that 'New Deal' measures (at least in the intial years) did more good for the rural poor in USA than almost anything else in the past century. Eventually, the system becomes too bureacratic and too involved in the perpetuation of self to do any good, but limited initiatives can probably have great impact.

I also think, generally speaking, people who reach the top of the pyramid in Indian politics and civil service generally tend to be less compromised and less susceptible to pressure than people at state levels. We need to figure out a combination of central control of budgets and state level management of projects that works.

I think RISC is a brilliant policy document. But as Atanu himself mentioned 'public good' can best be administered by the government

This is in response to Kaushik's last few lines.

Socially optimal quantities of public goods are underprovided by markets. To correct that market imperfection, the provision of public goods has to be subsidized. While the government is the most favorably place (usually) to provide the subsidy, the goverment is not the most able institution to provide the public good -- most notably in poor underdeveloped countries where governments are most likely to be kleptocracies as in most of Indian states. The important point to note is that the financing, production, and distribution of goods (public or private) are distinct activities. Merely because something is a public good does not imply that the government has to do all three. The production and distribution could very well be done privately while the financing is done by the govt.

So, I would argue against the government being involved in the production of public goods in most cases.

Now about central control of resources: doesn't work efficiently in most cases. India did that for too long. The USSR is another signal lesson in the dangers of central control. For central control to work, one would need an omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent dictator. Even the lord god will not do because by all accounts the lord god himself is either not omnipotent or is not benevolent. So we are looking for someone who is a lot greater than the traditional god to pull off central control.

Atanu

Frankly, you can't provide general growth when so large a percentage of the population is still focused on nonproductive subsistance farming. Productive farming usually requires only 1-3% of the population. Higher levels can be sustained only by taxing (dragging down) the other more productive segments of the economy (regardless, the biggest burden I have seen is in Japan, with 17% of its population still mired in farming).

How do you get people to shift to other pursuits? The US urbanized through the rural poverty of the depression of the 30's (the advent of mechanized farming drove most farmers out of business). That is a harsh method, but it may at some level have to happen in any country interested in full development.

The development of an economy is a natural consequence of the shift of labor from agriculture to manufacturing, and subsequently from manufacturing to services. Note that the shift refers to the labor; agriculture has to go on still but with fewer people.

I have discussed a model called ADLI -- agriculture demand led industrialization -- in my Deeshaa weblog. This is a sustainable model that is still relevant in India's case. The model can be updated in the present context to "Rural Demand Led Computerization" RDLC, perhaps.

The RDLC could do for rural India was the institution of Land Grant Colleges and Universities, the Morrill Act of 1862, did for rural US. (Incidentally the act was signed by my favorite American president -- Lincoln.) The act donated public lands to provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture.

The idea was to remove education from being the sole preserve of the privileged and fortunate elite and 'democratize' it by bringing it to the children of farmers, mechanics, and laborers. The goal was the application of knowledge to issues relevant to farms, households, and factories.

Thus the land-grant universities were formed with the charter to teach, conduct agricultural research, and most importantly to provide extension services. The sons and daughters of rural America had access to education. Though it was initially thought that the kids would go back to the farm, farm productivity increases precluded that. But that was no tragedy: the urbanization of America was achieved by these educated sons and daughters of rural US -- they provided the human resource needed for the US to move from an agrarian society to an industrial society.

Now consider the Indian situation. The urbanization of India is not taking place because the rural population does not have access to education. Thus when forced to move, they migrate to urban India to be employed at menial jobs and live in mega slums. This has got to change if India is to develop. No amount of BPO and ITES is going to cut it: the only hope is to educate the rural population and do so efficiently and with no loss of time. IT has the potential to do just that: bring education to the hundreds of millions in rural India.

Atanu

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Rajesh:

You seem to have linked to a different page about designing effective visual presentations ...

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