SARI focuses on:

1. Inventing and deploying innovative technologies, applications, and highly localized content that lead to economic and social development.
2. Conducting social and economic impact assessment research of these technologies.
3. Testing and generating business models that lead to profit generation and allow the services and technologies to be self-sustaining.
4. Benefiting from the Network Effect that comes from connecting up a large number of communities and user, aggregating demand, and integrating markets.

• Initial pilot phase will provide internet access and applications through roughly 1000 connections in 350 villages in the Madurai District of the southeastern Indian State of Tamil Nadu. 

 
• SARI is a project of the MIT Media Lab, Harvard's Center for International Development, IIT-Madras, and the I-Gyan Foundation.