Hi everyone, I am Laxmi Pant, a student of rural innovation policy studies. When I was reading through the messages this morning, a few puzzles come to my mind. 1. PPP has been experimented as a model to improve social processes of making agricultural technologies (new animal breeds, crop varieties, chemical fertilizers, mechanical tools, etc) work for poor. ICTs could be one among a long list of technologies that can help fellow farmers to move out of the poverty. Empirical examples are emerging!!!. 2. Now we are specifically interested in making ICTs work for poor through the model of PPP. Here my assumption is that poor is a generic term that apply to most farmers in low-income countries. Indian farmers are committing suicide; a sad strategy to debt relief! How will ICTs help revert this trend? Will it be an additional source of expense for them? Indian colleagues may have more insights on this! 3. Social divides, such as hierarchy, bureaucracy, divides between scientific and local knowledge, and divides between open science practices at the local level and IPR issues associated with scientific knowledge, are the biggest challenge in most South Asian countries. E-agriculture can work though PPP, but provided we address the social divides prevalent in our society. Here I am considering three types of private sector; all that is not public - non-profit private, for-profit private and informal sector. We have to be clear which category of private sector! Hope our fellow participants spare time to help me solve these puzzles. Thank you, Laxmi