ICIRHT-2017, 28 TH -29 TH August, 2017, ISBN: 978-93-5279-071-5 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Humanitarian Technology (ICIRHT) 150 Internet Saathi: A Step towards Promoting Rural Indian Women P. K. Paul 1 , P. S. Aithal 2 , A. Bhuimali 3 l DCIS, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India 2 Vice Chancellor, Srinivas University, Mangalore,Karnataka, India. 3 Vice Chancellor, Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal, India Corresponding Author: P. K. Paul, Email: prantoshkpaul@gmail.com Abstract— Internet is the network of networks. This is the most wonderful gift of electronics and communication science during the last century. Internet actually a global system and interconnected computers and that are from wide sectors including the private, public settings and also educational, research—and so on. Internet is useful to get and provide information services to the connected devices with proper communication, format etc. India is one of the important country in the world in internet uses. Millions of people are using the internet services but it is a fact that many are still not using the services due to economical and social barrier. The ‘have’ and ‘have not’—these perspectives are also there in internet world. Thus this resulted in the digital divide. The Internet Saathi is a scheme to remove digital divide by transforming internet and web applications. Keywords— Internet Saathi, India, Internet, Digital Divide, Information Divide, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Network Literacy, Development, Information Sciences, Social Information Systems Introduction— The Internet is providing several information and information resources which include the hypertext documents, utilization of www, email, FTP, peer-to- peer and also sharing of the file. Today Internet telephony and internet television have become important and most valuable and emerging services. The whole internet system is managed by the ICANN (i.e. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETE). During the last few decades, many divisions have emerged and new contributions have been added and as a result internet users increased rapid manner [2], [3], [4]. India started its internet journey long back but the rapid growth added during the last of 1990’s. As on 2014, 40% of the total population in the world are using the internet. In India, Several Government institutes, telecommunication policies help in the user base rise. ‘Internet Saathi’ is a social computing and informatics implementation initiatives by the private player to improve internet base among the women in rural India only. Aim of the Study— The main aim and objective of this study include but not limited to as follows— x To learn basic about the internet and its initial stage and period. x To find out the ‘Internet Saathi’ initiative and also its offer in different context.