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# Websites for the third world: placebo or a sign of change?
- URL: https://werd.io/websites-for-the-third-world-placebo-or-a-sign-of-change/
- Published: 2006-08-14T19:53:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:16.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

<http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/14/websites-for-the-third-world-placebo-or-instrument-of-change/>

Shailaja Neelakantan holds forth on a recent headline that an Indian village has ‘uploaded itself’ to the Internet. Translation: it got a website. Which is all very well, but does it have an Internet connection, or medical facilities, or the aid it needs from its government? Take a guess. Sailaja grumbles: One gets fairly fed-up reading articles \[...\]