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3. Concrete situation and interventions India is well known as one of the largest IT exporters in the world. In the procurement sector, for example, the country holds 58% of the global market share (Nasscom, 2012). Furthermore, the sector's share of GDP is estimated to have grown from 1.2% in 1998 to 7.5% in 2012 (Nasscom, 2012). However, this impressive growth and rapid growth of the IT sector in the global market is not followed by well-developed IT in rural India. According to IAMAI research, IT penetration in rural areas only reaches around 3%, while in urban areas the percentage is up to 20% (Canton, 2012). This raises some questions: How can this inequality occur in India? and How do NGOs help bridge the digital inclusion gap between urban and rural areas and encourage IT development in the latter through co-creation? One possible reason for the above paradox is that the government favors economic growth more than IT development, or in a More general terms, education i.e. India has one of the lowest government expenditures in this sector...