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.
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.
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