Digital India : Understanding Information, Communication and Social Change
Pradip Ninan. Thomas
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New Delhi : : SAGE India, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (225 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; 1 - An Introduction to the Digital Moment in India; Section 1: Information Technology in a Liberalised Economy; 2 - The Software Industry in India; 3 - Mobile Phones in India: Issues Related to Access and Use; Section 2: Government 1.0 and Information Technology; 4 - Telecommunications and Universal Service Obligations in India; 5 - A Critique of ICTs in Development; Section 3: Government 2.0 and Information Technology; 6 - E-Government, E-Governance and Governmentality. - 7 - Intellectual Property Conundrums and the State in the Era of the Digital8 - Public Sector Software in India; Section 4: Contested Information Technology; 9 - Piracy in the Contested City: Access, Distribution and Equity; Index; About the Author. - India's tryst with the digital is an extensive project and while much media attention is given to flagship digital initiatives linked to informational capitalism, the story is also one of marginalized people appropriating digital leaks and re-creating the digital economy in their image. The story of the digital in India is also about the ambivalent role played by the State in the shaping of India's digital futures via enclosures and openness. It is this battle between enclosing the digital and extending access to it that makes the story of the digital in India an exciting one. Digital India is
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| ISBN | 9788132109044
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