http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/28/microsoft-extends-a-helping-hand-to-indias-salt-miners Comments for "Microsoft Extends a Helping Hand to India's Salt Miners" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/28/microsoft-extends-a-helping-hand-to-indias-salt-miners#comment-13004 i am nazanin foruzesh and i am searching for mine salt refinery. i really appreciate it if you help me to know about this matter regardz Foruzesh<br class="clear" /> Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:55:22 -0400 nazanin comment 13004 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/28/microsoft-extends-a-helping-hand-to-indias-salt-miners <p style="padding: 5px; float: left;"><a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/india_pop_1973.jpg"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/India.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="165" height="175" /></a></p><a href="/blogs/2006/06/20/will-blogging-and-wifi-save-the-world" target="_blank">In an earlier post</a> I made the point that technology alone will not lead to moral progress.  Indeed, it takes the proper set of social institutions and cultural practices for technology to be leveraged to achieve just ends.  In Kharagodha, a small and arid salt-mining village in western India, it would seem that all the necessary steps are being taken to make personal computers a tool that actually improves lives.  Thanks to a small grant from Microsoft, the local miners union here is running computer classes for the miners and is setting up a digital lab to test the quality of salt extracted from the mines.  <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/28/microsoft-extends-a-helping-hand-to-indias-salt-miners">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/28/microsoft-extends-a-helping-hand-to-indias-salt-miners#comment Successful Models Telecommunications and IT Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:04:06 -0400 Ethan Arpi 2949 at http://www.nextbillion.net