Information Technology (IT) has brought about a major shift in the nature and speed of knowledge processing, thereby transforming the way businesses and, indeed, governments, function. An integral aspect of social capital, IT can either be an empowering force for the marginalized, or be instrumental in creating a new dimension of inequality. In post-independence India, the quest to end poverty, disease and inequality of opportunity has inspired the state to ...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are finding major applications in the government sector today--enabling easy and transparent flow of information between various government departments; and between the government and the citizens of the country. The Indian Government, both at the state and the central level have drawn up impressive e-governance plans to improve services to the common man. But how effective have these e-governance projects been? ...