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A special report from Swathi Adiseshu of Sehgal Foundation in the US describing her first visit to see the work being done in rural India by S M Sehgal Foundation. I thought I understood this work before I went. I had the terminology down: integrated rural development, women's empowerment, the transformed lives of schoolchildren. I used these phrases in meetings and in conversations with donors. I believed in them. I just didn't know what they looked like on site in India. Th

Most public systems in India are already digital. Access is assumed. Skills are not. In a government school in Badarpur, Nuh District, a digital library has become part of everyday learning. Students are not describing technology as a subject. They are learning how systems work. How information is entered, corrected, stored, and acted upon. That familiarity carries consequences. From left to right: Mosim, a teacher at the Senior Secondary School in Badarpur; students Naisha,