Jhai first went to India at the invitation of the Datamation Foundation Trust and Chetan and Sarita Sharma. Chetan and Sarita Sharma have done world-class, award winning ICT and development work with the poorest of the poor in both urban and rural areas. These projects have created hundreds of jobs.

Jhai is part of the International Support Group of Mission 2007 and is cooperating with consultants of the first-ever efforts of the Department of IT, government of India, in its CSC Scheme for bringing ICT to100,000 villages. We expect to provide help in trainers' training and building of tools and processes - with best practices Indian partners - in sustainable, scalable ICT and rural development in India starting this Spring.

Our first project in India will demonstrate financially sustainable and full function computing and life-saving telemedicine and monitoring methods in five villages with limited electricity and broadband (30kbps minimum) connection in rural parts of of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Jhai is an active partner in this project. Jhai has recently received requests for replication of this project from governments and organizations in 10 countries.

Jhai with our Indian ngo partners are seeking financial partners for these newly developing efforts:

• Radically increasing the number of trainers in India of wifi and wimax installation and maintenance workers on a certified basis as a world model
• Making the internet accessible to the illiterate through radically graphical interfaces combined with the widest variety of tools, including translation services, video, audio, images, and local text and locally produced, mapped wikis - all socially marketed through state-of-the-art means
• Radically increasing the business, leadership and organizing skills of village entrepreneurs and others interested in stated ICT-related businesses in rural villages for the first time through advanced leadership training from the worldÕs best and most experienced trainers

The field test of Jhai PC 1.6 and communication system was completed in April 2006 in cooperation with Intel Corporation, Cisco Systems, the Haughton Family Fund and the Window Rock Unified School District. From July 2005 to April 2006 there were no crashes of the machines. We did have problems with the network due to lightening hitting one central antenna, with a severe wind storm bending a replacement central antenna part, and with vandals. We will report on the results of this field test in an update. We will have much first-in-the-world data to share on remote rural, low-power, internet-connected, real world installations.

The field test of Jhai PC 1.0 and communication system was initiated in May 2003. All systems worked. We have a lot of video on this. The design of the first Jhai PC was initiated in July 2002 under leadership of Lee Felsenstein and eventually included nearly 100 engineers, mostly on the software side, many of whom were Laotians and Lao-Americans. Some of these engineers are now doing fine work with a spin-off ngo, Inveneo. Our effort in Laos, however, was halted in May 2003 by the Lao military due to nearby terrorist activities. We tried to restart it in the original five villages for one year. This involved complicated and lengthy negotiations. In the end we could not complete a deal, so we pulled this effort out of Laos and began work on the Navajo field test. We hope to return to Laos with this project as soon as the Indian test is completed or sooner, pending funding. We have been invited to pursue this initiative by the government of Lao PDR.

• Localized word processing support, spreadsheet functions, web browsing, email.
• Operable by all members of the community, children, parents and the elderly. There is no assumption of technology expertise.
• Works as mini-server for village knowledge center array of 4-9 client machines.
• Works for videoconferencing, still pictures, and monitoring with medical monitoring system

• VoIP connection to public switched telephone networks
• Use with dial-up, DSL, T1, or satellite via wifi, wimax or cable connection.
• Local area network connectivity among nearby units and/or villages.

• PC-based architecture, incorporate industrial-grade components.
• State of the art power conservation.
• Draws under 20 watts including LCD screen.
• No moving parts.
• Peripherals include printer, camera, medical machine.
• Power to machine must be 'clean' as possible.
• Runs via battery powered by bicycle-generator or on grid.
• Two versions Ð prototype 1.8 for field test(s), production able 2.0 on single board.

• +140 degree F in India
• -20 degree F on Navajo reservation
• 5 year life, rugged
• Continuous high humidity
• Locally generated power required for 12 hour/day duty