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Default Re: India: Cyber Cafe Audience

In another thread, I posted a link to this article, which states:

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Here is an interesting fact, the majority of those cafes (80%) are run by women, with no special skills or with a very little experience in technology use. That is a result of the Internet penetration in rural territories made by women. The internet access promotion supervised by women reveals a revolutionary effect on the 700 million people who live in Indian villages.
NewYorkDude, does this seem accurate to you? Also, do you know if there are more cyber cafes in rural areas or urban areas?

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Originally Posted by newyorkdude View Post
In other words, young kids, the ones who use computers at cyber cafes, meet and flirt etc at cyber cafes, but I doubt whether they do so in the same way Americans or Canadians might.
That doesn't surprise me. I hear these days people even flirt at the supermarket.

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The first wave of cyber cafes was established and run by individuals. When I arrived the second wave of cyber cafes was run by big companies like Sify. They were killing the little guy shops.
That's too bad. Are many of these individually-run cyber cafes shutting down because these big companies are entering the cyber cafe market?

BTW, I appreciate the wealth of information you've been providing on INForum. I'm gaining a better perspective of India through your posts.
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