Panaji: Free software and open source solutions offer a huge potential to link your computer to the mobile phone and the inexpensive Skype networks - that allows you to make international calls over the Internet - and for sending out SMSes too.
This could help significantly narrow the digital divide "at the social level between rich and poor and geographical levels, between city and village," says Giovanni Maruzzelli, an Italian expert in the field currently touring India.
The Italian techie has held meetings at IIT-Madras, at Auroville, and at Mumbai, and now is scheduled to speak in Goa and Hyderabad.
Maruzzelli is the man behind the celliax.org project, that works with Internet telephony, computers, sound cards and mobile phones -- bringing all together in amazing ways.
Celliax uses second-hand, recycled and cheap cellphones as interfaces between VoIP and the GSM networks.
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