LifeLines - Vision

A unique intervention in providing ICT-assisted knowledge-delivery services in rural India, the LifeLines programme has over the 3 years of its implementation, fostered a process of creating and enriching shared value for its stakeholders, who range from a rural farmer at the last mile to a village school teacher to civil society agencies facilitating the service on the ground to private sector partners supporting the project.

OneWorld is now focussed on forging new partnerships to explore the potential of the innovative LifeLines platform to other applications.

Endowed with a versatile and dynamic attribute, the LifeLines system can be customized and adapted locally for information sharing in other geographical regions and sectors. Basing on this strength, LifeLines envisions to attain coverage of 10000 villages and 15 million users by 2010 - extending programme implementation to cater not only to agriculture and education, but also related sectors like health, governance delivery and entrepreneurship development.

Dialogues are in progress to take LifeLines to new locations also beyond India. There are also requests from the Governments of Nepal and Sri Lanka to replicate the service in their countries.