“Communication technology is no communication at all…the provision of communication technology cannot be mistaken for better communication with any one. The technology can provide the means, even if we reach the stage of having the technology automatically reporting without human help, as long as the human attitude and action is what is to be communicated, the technology is of no use unless the human being understands and decides to co-operate by utilising the technology for its full potential.
There may be a time when it is possible for someone sitting in a remote village in India to have a virutual conferencing with someone in other part of the world, however, that does not necessarily ensure that the conference held such can be made any qualitatively better than the quality of the two people involved…”
- Samanvaya Mahavakya, Learning from Rural ICT experience