Dotcom World-25: "Google India Internet Bus" in Tamilnadu

Google has been working to popularise the Internet in India through their products. Now they have launched a project called Google Internet Bus. Under this project, a mobile bus designed to showcase the benefits of the Internet to the people across the cities of Tamil Nadu. It is in Chennai yesterday and today. Tomorrow it will be in Vellore. Following is the schedule:

Feb 03-04 Chennai

Feb 05 Vellore

Feb 06 Krishnagiri

Feb 07 Salem

Feb 11 Erode

Feb 12 Tirupur

Feb 14 Coimbatore

Feb 18 Dindigul

Feb 19 Madurai

Feb 23 Nagercoil

Feb 27 Tuticorin

Mar 02 Pudukkottai

Mar 03 Tiruchirappalli

Mar 06 Thanjavur

Mar 08 Kumbakonam

Mar 10 Neyveli

Mar 12 Cudddalore

Mar 13 Tiruvannamalai

The project focuses on four themes of Education, Information, Communication and Entertainment and to this end, the bus has four booths devoted to each theme.

For updates visit the Internet Bus Project website at

http://www.google.co.in/internetbus

Courtesy: M/s.Prem Ramaswami & Srikanth Belwadi from the Official Google India Blog: http://googleindia.blogspot.com/2009/02/india-internet-bus-project-launches.html

and The Hindu, Madurai, Feb.4, 2009.

Grateful thanks to M/s.Prem Ramaswami, Srikanth, Google India and The Hindu.