Comat is a small company operating in rural India. They  “bridge the digital divide” by bringing computing benefits to villages. They are looking for programmers to work with them. The long recruitment mail is inspirational and I am sure they will get a lot of candidates! Check it out.

Consider this: the average village that we operate in receives four hours of power supply a day. The supply is often at 150V, far too low to power a computer or charge a UPS battery. The place is also a good four hours from the nearest urban centre, and given the state of roads in much of the country, that’s four agonising hours for anyone who must go attend a support call because the operator complained that his web browser is saying “Page Not Loading” and he’s got a long queue of agitated customers who are threatening a riot because that printer is not producing the document that will determine their livelihood.

You, the hotshot Web 2.0 and assorted buzzword compliant web developer, must produce an app that will keep that crowd happy. You’re not going to get away by telling them that your JSON-spewing Ajax application requires a low latency internet connection. You’re going to have think this through very carefully.

Indeed!

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