The National Institute of Rural Development is the apex research, training and consultancy organisation in the field of rural development. It acts as a think tank to the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Recognising the importance of ICTs in rural delopment especially its impact on education, health, panchayati raj, gender, livelihoods etc., NIRD, based on a recommendation at a national seminar held in August 2004, embarked upon a project to develop ' a case library of such of those experiments that are on-going or completed' at the initiative of either the government, or NGOs, Institutions or even individuals.

Accordingly the present project is sponsored and all those working on the application of ICTs for rural development in the form of either a telecentre, Community information centre, or Village information centre or with any similar name are welcome to contact us to give details of their endevour sothat a comprehensive database of such experiments can be developed for drawing lessons from them.