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Title ICTs and Indian social change : diffusion, poverty, governance / editors, Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar, V. Gayathri
Published Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : ICTs and Indian social change, an agenda of concerns / Ashwani Saith and M. Vijayabaskar -- Culture of technology and ICTs / Sundar Sarukkai -- Sustainable internet connectivity in rural India / Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Anuradha Ramachandran -- Two mutually reinforcing applications of ICT for socio-economic development of India / Rajesh Jain, Atanu Dey, Reuben Abraham and Vivek Padmanabhan -- ICTs and poverty alleviation : hope or hype? / Ashwani Saith -- Decrypting E-governance : narratives, power play and participation in the Gyandoot Intranet / T.T. Sreekumar -- Crossing a chasm : technologies, institutions and policies for developing a regional IT industry / Nirvikar Singh -- The electronic grassrooting of democracy : a case for community radio / Vinod Pavarala -- Wired watchdogs : how ICTs are aiding civil society to enhance public accountability / Gopakumar Krishnan Thampi -- Influence of software trade on development of web-enabled governance Initiatives : comparative perspectives of Indian and UK experiences / Amit Mitra and A. Didar Singh -- Evaluating the developmental impact of E-Governance initiatives : an exploratory framework / Shirin Madon -- Ricocheting gender equations : women workers in the call centre industry / Piush Antony and V. Gayathri -- Constructing work and identity in the Indian outsourced ITES sector / M. Vijayabaskar -- Ethnic transnational middle classes in formation : a case study of Indian information technology professionals / Xiang Biao -- Virtual India : Indian IT labour and the nation-state / Peter van der Veer -- Uncanny networks : pirate, urban and the new globalization in India / Ravi Sundaram
Summary Papers presented at a conference held at Bangalore in December 2002
Notes "Institute for Human Development; Institute of Social Studies."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Information technology -- India
Telecommunication -- India
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
Information technology
Social conditions
Telecommunication
Informationstechnik
Sozialer Wandel
Informationstechnik
Technischer Fortschritt
Diffusion (Soziologie)
Sozialer Wandel
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Armut
SUBJECT India -- Social conditions -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064952
Subject India
Indien
Indien
Form Electronic book
Author Saith, Ashwani.
Vijayabaskar, M.
Gayathri, V.
Institute for Human Development (New Delhi, India)
Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
ISBN 9788178299914
8178299917
128196557X
9781281965578