The article relates how Bill had spent the night in a hut in a remote Indian village to get a real feeling for how the masses of underclass Indians spend each day. On emerging, Bill was quoted as saying that he will put his muscle behind transforming the village into another IT hub... That's fantastic.
I have to speculate that this isn't what Bill really meant. India doesn't need more IT Hubs. India needs more good jobs in every village. Building more Hubs will build more Kolkota's, and from what little I have seen it appears to me that living as a poor person in Kolkata is much, much worse of a life than living as a poor person in a rural Indian village.
I think what Bill really intends is to help improve the communication and power infrastructure in India, so that an IT worker can work from any Indian village. That would distribute the high-skill and high paying jobs across the sub-continent, which would generate much better service industry jobs everywhere. No more mega-cities like Kolkata with the problems of mega-cities - Instead a distributed model of employment opportunities that will really transform India and inspire us all.
Of course I have no idea if this is what Bill is really planning, but I sure hope it is.
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