The man who helped mastermind India's "green revolution" in agriculture in the 1960s is now hoping to do a similar thing for information technology in the country.
MS Swaminathan was one of the key figures in the plan to make India nearly self-sufficient in food through technology which allowed for intensive farming techniques.
And he is now behind efforts to get India's rural poor online as quickly possible - through mobile phones, information kiosks and even resource centres, connected through the satellites of the Indian Space Research organisation.
He told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme how he is now pioneering efforts to connect as many of the country's population as possible to the internet so that they can be part of a new "knowledge revolution."
"I always said the green revolution helped increase the productivity of wheat and rice and so on - but the knowledge revolution which we have launched increases productivity in all its dimensions," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7202545.stm
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