The enormous potential of ICTs to fundamentally transform the nature of economic growth and development has induced both wide-ranging hopes and apprehensions. While debates on these issues in the context of advanced market economies are relatively old, their significance for low-income economies, like India and China, is only beginning to be appreciated now. This pioneering volume gives a comprehensive overview of the diverse linkages between ICTs and Indian ...
ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance
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 ...
