Consider the Digital Divide (as in lack of access) to be Bridged

This IBM project from the Indian Research Lab should be the model for bridging the “Digital Divide”  in rural areas of the United States.

Research I conducted in California’s Central Valley certainly supports the wisdom of their assumptions. Mobile web devices are ubiquitous and the ability to master and adapt digital tools to local conditions (creating mobile mashups for local social networks or interfacing agricultural hardware with digital technology, and a billion variations) is now the key IT skill. One billion people will carry a Turing Machine connected to the internet in their pocket by 2011.

GPS tractors may be all the rage in the US, but can GPS powered Oxen be far behind

IBM India sees this everyday, but who in the US is bothering to look in the nooks and crannies?