June 22, 2001

India Will Be Next Site for MIT's Media Lab

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

The Indian government has allocated $14-million for Media Lab Asia, a joint project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cutting-edge information technology.

Pramod Mahajan, India's minister for information technology, said that the lab would work with aid groups, industry, and the government. Technology has enormous potential to transform people's lives, he said, but unless everyone is connected, it will simply become another tool for excluding the poor from

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