Introduction from India

general consideration: it happened in other forums that it is very rare to find examples quoting the benefit in term of quantity/quality using numbers. Sentences are most of the time generic. Let me pose a very simple question how much should the small farmer increase his/her earnings in order that the adoption of ITC is self-sustainable? Public-private partnership to which entities refers? fform what I understand (for example in another field like e-medicine) "private" means big companies that want to penetrate the market does not look much different from intermediaries exploiting small farmers. Possible rationale: elctronic intermediaries (ITC for development) are cheaper than human intermediaries? How much (which percentage) of the monthly earnings of a small farmer will cost to change the battery of a cellular phone?