After successfully traveling to 10 states, covering more than 2000 locations and touching the lives of over 56,00,000 Indians across 120 towns, Google India’s educational Internet Bus is now entering Bihar. Surveys have indicated that more than 15,00,000 people have gone online for the first time after visiting the bus.
In Bihar the bus will visit Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Bihar Sharif, Arrah, Katihar, Chapra & Purnia.
The custom-designed bus has several computer and mobile terminals on board. These will be used to give a first-hand experience to users about the real life benefits of the Internet.
The bus will showcase informative content in English and Hindi in addition to the basic familiarization on using services like search, email, social networking, online ticketing etc. It will also showcase how data services can be used on a mobile device.
Users across India will be able to follow the bus through its journey, see pictures and videos and join online communities by simply visiting
www.google.co.in/internetbus.
Posted by Nishant Nair, Program Manager
