Graham Williamson Award

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Graham Williamson Award

• India June 2008
• Shey Cobley
• Oxford City Council

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The award

• Given in memory of Graham Williamson
• Awarded annually
• Fourth year it has been awarded
• Young person working in Public sector IT
• Allowance given for up to one month of travel

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Why India?

• Challenge myself
• Developing country
• Largest democracy in the world
• Fast growing IT industry

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About India

• Seventh largest country in the world
• 29 states and 6 union territories
• Population of 1.2 billion
• 70 population in rural areas
• 23 official languages
• 61 literacy rate

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Indian E-government

• Make all Government services accessible to
  the common man in his locality, through common
  service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency,
  transparency reliability of such services at
  affordable costs to realise the basic needs of
  the common man

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The trip

• Visited Central and Local Government, and IT
  industry
• Experienced constant electricity and Internet
  cuts
• Stranded in rural
• India by one caste
• uprising

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Sawai Madhopur

• Predominately rural area
• 1.1 million inhabitants
• 57.34 literacy rate

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www.sawaimadhopur.nic.in
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Udayan Care Project

• Charity based in Delhi since 1994
• Originally focused on education of young women
• Started computer training
• in 2006
• Funded by Microsoft
• Unlimited Potential
• Has five computer
• centres in Delhi

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Google

• Based in Hyderabad or
• Cyberbad
• National government
• subsidies and tax benefits
• for IT companies
• High number IT
• graduates
• Optimistic about
• future of IT
• development

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Summary

• Many similarities between UK and India
• India a country of extremes
• Government effectively
• addressing issues but
• more work to do
• Mobile phone is having
• a greater impact than
• the Internet