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Digital India : understanding information, communication, and social change /

India's tryst with the digital is an extensive project and while much media attention is given to flagship digital initiatives linked to informational capitalism, the story is also one of marginalized people appropriating digital leaks and re-creating the digital economy in their image. The sto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Pradip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2012.
Colección:Shastri Collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • An introduction to the digital moment in India
  • Section1: information technology in a liberalised economy
  • The software industry in India
  • Mobile phones in India : issues related to access and use
  • Government 1.0 and information technology
  • Telecommunications and universal service obligations in India
  • A critique of ICTs in development
  • Section: 3: government 2.0 and information technology
  • E-government, e-governance, and governmentality
  • Intellectual property conundrums and the state in the era of the digital
  • Public sector software in India
  • Section: 4: contested information technology
  • Piracy in the contested city : access, distribution and equity
  • Index
  • About the author.