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HP Labs CKS is providing analytic, business and design inputs to HP Labs India in order to enable to create new product lines and applications for the use of non-elite, rural, and other non-traditional users in South Asia and the developing world.

HP I-Community CKS is currently helping I-Community plan its Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) Project. CKS works with Hewlett Packard Laboratories India on a project that aims at successfully siting kiosks in rural areas, with a view to ensuring commercial viability, replicability, benchmarking, best practices, functional striation, and scalability.

n-Logue Communications PL CKS has undertaken the initial Research and Documentation, Planning and Design of all Social and Economic Infrastructure to be supported by WLL Internet and telephone connectivity.

EDC CKS, in partnership with EDC, is helping USAID plan ICT initiatives in the three states of Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

UNICEF CKS is working with UNICEF to create policy documents and strategic approaches to use ICTs for UNICEF's objectives. CKS is also providing consultancy services for UNICEF's Sisu Samrakshak project, which aims at providing innovative solutions for child healthcare in rural Andhra Pradesh.

Department For International Development (DFID) , the United Kingdom's department for international development, is working to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development in middle-income countries in partnership with respective governments, private sectors and civil societies. CKS has conducted a study on the use of ICTs in South Asia for DFID. This study provided practical guidelines for in developing a pro-poor ICT policy and action plan.

UNDP CKS has undertaken the evaluation and documentation for a recent conference on 'ICT for Development; a Grassroots and Pavement Perspective', in collaboration with UNDP, India. This conference was hosted by IIM, Bangalore, India.

World Resources Institute (WRI) CKS has built a database of fifty ICT initiatives in South Asia in collaboration with the World Resources Institute

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) CKS published A Social Investor's Guide to ICTs for Development for CAF.

Government of Karnataka CKS has prepared preliminary projections of the social impact of rural connectivity for the Government of Karnataka on the occasion of its international conference Bangalore IT. Com.

DoorsEast Doors of Perception is an international conference and knowledge network, which sets new agendas for design, in particular for ICTs. The conference brings together different disciplines and communities. CKS is working to create a chapter of this network in Bangalore.