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Engineering Rural Development
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/0176/010709_CACMp56_EngineeringRural1.large.jpg?1231362690&1231362689 "Parikh demonstrates a mobile data-collection system to NGO field staff member")
An NGO field staff member is demonstrated the Self-Help MIS mobile data-collection system by author Tapan S. Parikn in a village outside Madurai, India in 2005.
University of California, Berkeley
Information systems enable rural development by increasing the accountability of nongovernmental organizations.
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