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Refereed Conferences

  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Content Creation and Dissemination by-and-for Users in Rural Areas , To appear in proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), 17-19 April 2009, Doha, Qatar.



  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit A Nanavati, Organizing the Unorganized - Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged, In ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008. Preprint available as IBM Research Report No. RI07007, Oct. 2007.


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol, In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2007), Sept. 10-12th, 2007, Manchester, UK.


  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K. Agarwal and Amit A. Nanavati, WWTW: The World Wide Telecom Web, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2007, Kyoto, Japan.


  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K Agarwal, and Amit A Nanavati, VOISERV: Creation and Delivery of Converged Services through Voice in Emerging Economies, In Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), June 21- 25, 2007, Helsinki, Finland. Preprint (pdf).


Refereed Poster Papers


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, The World Wide Telecom Web Browser, In 2008 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008.


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, VoiKiosk: Increasing Reachability of Kiosks in Developing Regions, Poster paper in 2008 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008.


Magazine Articles


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Amit A Nanavati, Sougata Mukherjea, and Arun Kumar, Raising a Billion Voices, In ACM Interactions, March-April 2008.


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Swati Challa, Nanda Kambhatla, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, Pyr.mea.IT: Permeating IT Towards the Base of the Pyramid, In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Special Issue on System Projects at IBM Research, Vol 42, Issue 1, January 2008.


Research Reports


  • Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, and Amit Anil Nanavati, An Alternative Information Web for Visually Impaired Users in Developing Countries Available as IBM Research Report RI08010, July 2008.


  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanajan Chakraborty, Sandeep Jindal, and Amit Anil Nanavati, VOIGEN : A Technology for Enabling Data Services in Developing Regions. Available as IBM Research Report RI07001 , January 2007.