Knowledge Village as a Unit of Analysis

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Knowledge Village as a Unit of Analysis

• Dr. Surinder Batra
• Professor, Institute of Management Technology,
  India
• E-mail sbatra_at_imt.edu

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Why think of knowledge villages in the Indian
Context?

• Over 600,000 villages are home to 816 million
  persons (over 70 population)
• Urbanization creating enormous pressure on
  resources due to perpetual migration
• People failing to migrate have to suffer due to
  loss of livelihood opportunities in villages
• Villages require physical, electronic and
  knowledge connectivity

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Current Scenario

• A variety of initiatives have emerged
• Government, IT Companies, NGOs and International
  Agencies are collaborating in specific projects
• Low literacy high IT infrastructure cost,
  particularly the last mile connectivity
• Need for dynamic information/ knowledge on
  meteorological marketing factors in easily
  understood forms

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Mission 2007 Every Village a Knowledge Centre!

• Catering to knowledge needs at bottom of the
  pyramid
• Set up a knowledge centre in every village
• Two virtual academicians in every village to
  serve as torchbearers of knowledge
• Developing locale-specific and need-based content
  to promote knowledge intensive farming practices

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• Making thousands of villages dynamic,
  knowledge-creating and sharing societies at a
  local level is much more complex challenge
  compared to creating large resource-intensive
  knowledge cities
• Thank You!