VIRTUAL EDUCATION SOFTWARE PROGRESS IN INDIA - Bangalore's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which leads the Indian Government-funded Development Gateway ICT Research and Training Centre, has published a technical paper on building virtual classroom situations using the center's Vartalaap software. The open-source software is being developed to cater to the online communications needs of people in their local language.
To read "Vartalaap - Virtual Classroom System": http://www.elearn.cdac.in/eleltechIndia05/PDF/07-Vartalaap%20%E2%80%93% 20Virtual%20Classroom%20System%20-Supriya%20-%2007.pdf
For information on the India center and its ICT4D projects visit: http://www.ictrt.org.in