[LINK] Gungahlin

[Tom Worthington]

At 05:36 PM 6/07/98 +0800, Mark Balnaves wrote:

>... Telstra was going to trial a variety of services in Gungahlin,
> including online services. ...

Microsoft is helping set up the village of Harisal in the Indian state 
of Maharashtra, as a "smart village". There is a video < 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0H6Fwi0EiY > and press item < 
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/decoding-harisal-indias-first-soon-to-be-smart-village-1243808 
 > about this, but all I could find from the government was a PR 
newsletter, which says "The technology will make the
delivery of education and health services better": 
https://dgipr.maharashtra.gov.in/UPLOAD/ELOKRAJYA%5C2016%5C02/7879.pdf

This reminded me of the 1993 ACT Government "Strategic Alliance with 
Telecom Australia", which included the "Gungahlin Broadband Project". 
The University of Canberra were also involved (Balnaves, 2002).

The project was abandoned in 1996 and, as the then ACT Government 
admitted, it was never clear what the project was to accomplish: 
http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1996/week12/4149.htm

I am looking at e-learning in India. The major impediment is skepticism 
by Indian academics and government, about the value of on-line learning. 
Another problem is limited access to the Internet. But the Harisal 
"smart village" has the makings for a repeat of the failed "Gungahlin 
Broadband Project".

Reference

Balnaves, M. (2002). Finding an audience for a new service. In M. 
Balnaves, J. Sternberg & T. O'Regan (Eds.), Mobilising the audience. 
(pp. 235-252). Brisbane:The University of Queensland Press.


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