Congress is considering to use Microsoft display technologies to interact with rural masses from its headquarters in Delhi, a top official of the software giant's Indian entity said today.

"...The Congress party is imagining how to use these kinds of displays with rural, semi-literate or illiterate environment", Microsoft Corporation (India) Chairman Ravi Venkatesan said in the CII organised Sixth India Innovation summit here.

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"They (Congress party) are very interested in grass-roots engagements to get illiterate and semi-literate villagers to interact with party headquarters," he said.
    
Venkatesan said with such a technology (which does not need servers but requires cameras), "any surface can be made into a display.... You can project on a wall. Use the wall itself..."

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