M-Learning: Mobile - enabled Educational Technology
The proposed paper will exemplify the dynamics of M-learning and its pedagogical implications within the Indian rural education ecology. This study seeks to benefit various stakeholders in the education, telecom, rural industry and policy making sectors by providing meaningful insight into the macro and micro challenges and proposing innovative application, service and system solutions to address the same.  

Mobile Health Card: How to Use Mobile Phones to Increase Rural Immunization Rates
The rural health care system in India, along with many other complex social service institutions operating in India, needs better tracking tools to mark the identity of its beneficiaries. The current approach is paper-and-pen based, requiring extraordinary effort and time on the part of frontline healthcare workers and unnecessary duplication of effort. Two key surfaces are used to track the delivery of services to the beneficiary: the register (system copy) and the health card (user copy). The paper reviews the Routine Immunization (RI) card system and suggests several new directions that could employ mobile technologies to accomplish the existing functions of the RI Cards, while also improving immunization rates. The solutions proposed as well as there likely success are discussed in greater detail in the paper.  

Socio - Economic Impact of Affordable Handset Adoption
An executive report highlighting key socio-economic impact areas for adopting affordable mobile handsets in India. It gives an overview of barriers and key challenges of adoption in rural India, supported by mobile expert insights and field data. In relating the quantitative and qualitative data together, the report gives Vodafone some stratgeic recommendations to help increase the adoption of affordable handsets in the key indentified areas.  

This report presents the results of a research and innovation project called the Vaccine Delivery Innovation Initiative (VDII). It is an outcome of a research and design collaboration between CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and Dr. John Sherry of Intel Corporation, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in partnership with the Government of Bihar.

The purpose of the project was to apply the methodology of ethnographic research to better understand barriers to routine immunization from the unique perspective of users- namely, frontline health workers and recipient families and identify innovative solutions that account for user-preferences and helps them overcome everyday challenges to increase immunization coverage.

The Making of Colour Next 2010 is a compilation of the Colour Next 2010 research project initiated and funded by Asian Paints. This research was completed between May and September 2009 by the Center of Knowledge Societies.

Teleuse@BOP3: A Qualitative Study is the outcome of a research program conducted by CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and commissioned by LIRNEasia.

Teleuse@BOP 3 is characterized by providing insights into the usage of ‘more than voice’ or ‘Mobile 2.0’ services on mobile phones. By looking at the usage of such services like money transfer, social networking or text-voting, this study intends to bring clarity to the issue of BOP respondents having their first internet experience through mobile phones. The issue of trust and reliability amongst the BOP respondents while using mobile payment or other such services involving financial transactions is also of special interest to the study. Another added module for this study is the focus on the teleuse experience of BOP migrant workers with a special emphasis on coordinating remittances.

The Rural Marketing Practices for Telecom Services Report is the outcome of a research program funded and supported by the Nokia Siemens Networks.

The Rural Marketing Practices for Telecom Services report created by CKS Consulting Pvt. Ltd, reviews key learnings from the research conducted by CKS on behalf of Nokia Siemens Networks during May-June, 2008 in Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh and India. The Rural Marketing Practices research for South and South-East Asia was designed with the aim of gaining key marketing insights from the middle management of companies successfully involved in rural markets in these world regions.

The Emerging Economy Report, a path-breaking project on emerging economies was launched in March 2008. The report is a 350 slide document that provides essential information, innovative business models and opportunity areas for companies creating new products and services for consumers in the emerging economies of the world. The Emerging Economy Report is a decisioning tool for global business innovation. It does not contain mere economic and investment advice of the other emerging economy reports. The CKS team has analyzed in depth the effects of demographic shifts and societal trends in each of these countries. Our ethnographers visited multiple locations in each country, to conduct home visits to analyze the needs, desires and concerns of users who continue to remain outside the purview of the design community. To know more about the report and order your copy today, please visit: www.emergingeconomyreport.com

The Mobile Development Report offers a careful analysis of the social dynamics of mobile phone usage among urban and rural users from lower income backgrounds. It uses extensive qualitative case studies, rather than quantitative data, to explore the role that mobile phones play in the everyday lives of end users. These snapshots provide new insight into the ways in which new products, protocols and services could be designed to enhance the everyday lives of new rural adopters of mobile phones. New kinds of welfare and social services are proposed, in this study, on the basis of field findings.

Published in collaboration with CAF, this guide presents certain pioneering ICT initiatives specifically designed for the benefit of rural and disprivileged communities in emerging societies. The Guide had its second print edition in 2002. For more information, please mail your queries to cks@cks.in

In South Asia, where most rural populations lack basic resources like running water and sanitation systems, and where electricity, roads and even education are scarce and intermittent resources, high technologies truly appear to be far removed from the everyday concerns of the poorest sections of the countryside. This article critically examines the problems and possibilities of digital development in order to reveal the larger impact that ICTs could have on rural economies and societies.

Although ICTs are being experimentally deployed at a number of locations in South Asia, more successful interventions appear to involve certain deformations and adaptations of modular ICTs to suit the needs of new rural users. This paper suggests that alternative audio-visual forms must be invented by project planners, personnel and users through the transcendence of existing ideologies of technology, literacy and social hierarchy.

This document presents preliminary findings from its baseline study into digital libraries in India. The issues discussed here are for the purpose of creating a possible new digital library resource to organize the educational and developmental content that the Education Development Center is creating for India.