Engaging PCs for the First Time

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Engaging PCs for the First Time

The Technology for Eemerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India have identified particular patterns of use, content choice, and learning that accompany the adoption of the Internet connected PC by novice users at the workplace for low-income office workers, (i.e. those who are housekeeping staff, drivers, security guards, maintenance crew).

Their exposure to PCs was unrestricted and unmediated.

These workers have an average class 10 education in the local language often from a rural...

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