基本説明
Covers technology and a range of empirical material on the impacts of ICTs on the lives of people via its diffusion in the urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance and the new kinds of social identities it has fostered in India.
Full Description
ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance is the first book of its kind that puts together the optimistic voices of techno-idealists, critical social science perspectives on technology and a range of empirical material on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the lives of people. The book traces these processes across urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance, and highlights the new kinds of social identities they are fostering in India. It opens up an arena for dialogue between activists, technologists, policy makers and academia on using ICTs for development.
The book is a logical sequel to ICTs and Indian Economic Change: Economy, Work, Regulation that addressed the implications of the growth of ICT-based sectors in India for macro-economic development and industrial efficiency. This volume views the diffusion of ICTs in India primarily in the socio cultural realm. In responding to the pioneering voices of innovators in ICTs, it provides empirical and theoretical assessments and critiques of some of the important though often latent, premises that underlie these powerful initiatives.
Contents
Preface
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 Gyaandoot 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
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 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 Globalisation in India - Ravi Sundaram
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