IT experience in India : Bridging the digital divide / Information technology experience in India editors, Kenneth Keniston and Deepak Kumar. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2004. - 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

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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Digital divide--India--Congresses.
Information technology--Social aspects--India--Congresses.
Telecommunication--Social aspects--India--Congresses.
Equality--India--Congresses.
Economic development projects--India--Congresses.

HN690.I56 / I84 2004

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