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IT experience in India [electronic resource] : bridging the digital divide / editors, Kenneth Keniston and Deepak Kumar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital divide--India--Congresses.
- Digital divide.
- Information technology--Social aspects--India--Congresses.
- Information technology.
- Telecommunication--Social aspects--India--Congresses.
- Telecommunication.
- Equality--India--Congresses.
- Equality.
- Economic development projects--India--Congresses.
- Economic development projects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent decades have seen an unprecedented growth in information and communication technologies (ICTs), ushering in what is commonly referred to as the `Information Age`. This book explores whether modern ICTs can deliver on their promises of democracy and prosperity for the people of developing nations who comprise 80 per cent of the world's population. In order to do this, this volume uses lessons from the Indian experience-a country where information technology (IT) has made giant leaps, but which suffers from what has been described as multiple `digital divides`. The contributors explore fo
- Contents:
- The four digital divides / Kenneth Keniston
- Towards a knowledge system for sustainable food security: the information village experiment in Pondicherry / V. Balaji, K.G. Rajamohan, R. Rajasekara Pandy, and S. Senthilkumaran
- Liberalization of Indian telecom: regulation in the era of convergence (for information infrastructure and services) / T.J. Chowdary
- Information technology to support diversity in a global economy / Pat Hall
- An update on current telecom and regulation scenario in India
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Bhaskar Ramamurthi
- An agenda: electronic governance for the poor / P.D. Kaushik
- Digital development / Deepak Kumar
- Science, technology, and the politics of computers in Indian languages / Harsh Kumar
- Collaborative creation of digital resources in Indian languages / Rajeev Sangal, Akshar Bharati, and Vineet Chaitanya
- The Bangalore boom: from brain drain to brain circulation? / Annalee Saxenian.
- Notes:
- Papers from a "Workshop on 'Equity, Diversity, and Information Technology?', held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42537-4
- 9786612425370
- 81-321-0395-5
- OCLC:
- 554573715
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