Information and Communication Technology: Recasting Development

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Information and Communication Technology: Recasting Development sets out to illustrate the application of ICTs for recasting development in India and several other developing societies. This path-breaking book explores the applications of ICTs in the core sectors of agriculture, healthcare, geographic information system, networking, rural and industrial development. Another major focus of the book is the implication of communication convergence, the development of cyber journalism, electronic organizational communication, e-public relations, e-governance and e-democracy in the era of globalization. The book raises several fundamental questions on development policy and communication research and responds to the polemic issue of bridging the digital divide in India that can inspire the development efforts of several developing countries. The scholars of international strength who have broadened the ICT for development debate have great pleasure in recommending this book to academia, researchers, policy framers and professionals in communication and information science, IT, development studies, extension studies, rural development, development economics and planning and social policy. It is hoped that this book will be a valuable resource for future research and policy formation, management and intervention in national development.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kiran Prasad

Kiran Prasad is Associate professor in communication studies, College of Applied Science at salalah, Ministry of Higher Education, Oman and professor in Communication and Journalism at Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. She was Commonwealth Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Communication Research, University of Leeds, UK and Canadian Studies Research Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the youngest ever recipient of the ‘ State Best Teacher Award’ for university teacher from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. Aprolific writer and well known communication philosopher, She is author/editor of over seventeen books and conceptualized many theories in communication studies. Her recent books include Communcation for Development: Reinventing theory and Action(2009, in Vols.); Information and Communication technology: Recasting Development (2004); Women, Globalization and Mass Media: International Facets of Emancipation (2006); and HIV and AIDS: Vulnerrability of Women in Asia and Africa (2008). She has to her credit over 100 paper in journals of national and international repute and has researched extensively in India and abroad on the interrelations between communication and development studies.