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Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India

Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity

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  • © 2005

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  1. Govindan Parayil
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Part of the book series: Technology, Globalization and Development (TGD)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Information Capitalism

    • Govindan Parayil
    Pages 1-10

  3. ICTs and Decoupled Development: Theories, Trajectories and Transitions

    • Anthony P. D’Costa
    Pages 11-34

  4. The Political Economy of IT-driven Outsourcing

    • C. P. Chandrasekhar
    Pages 35-60

  5. ICTs for the Rural Poor: Civil Society and Cyber-Libertarian Developmentalism in India

    • T. T. Sreekumar
    Pages 61-87

  6. The Perils of Excessive Export Orientation

    • K. J. Joseph
    Pages 88-108

  7. Informational Development in Rural Areas: Some Evidence from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala

    • Jose Jayan Thomas
    Pages 109-132

  8. Building a ‘Soft Region’ on Hard Legacies: The Informational Economy in Andhra Pradesh, India

    • Kyle Eischen
    Pages 133-152

  9. The Political Economy of the Indian Software Industry

    • Balaji Parthasarathy
    Pages 153-173

  10. Working with Uncertainty in the IT Industry

    • Biao Xiang
    Pages 174-195

  11. The Political Economy of Informational Development: A Normative Appraisal

    • Govindan Parayil
    Pages 196-217

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 218-242
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About this book

In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhetorical flourishes of industry leaders, at present, the benefits of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) touch only the hundreds of thousands with the right skills and access. India still needs to do more to bring the benefits of ICTs to the hundreds of millions of its citizens still living in acute poverty. The contributors take stock of the political economy implications of informational development in India.

About the authors

C.P.CHANDRASEKHAR Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India ANTHONY P. D'COSTA Professor of Comparative International Development, University of Washington, USA KYLE EISCHEN Associate Director of Regional and Informational Research, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, USA K.J.JOSEPH Senior Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanathapuram, India and Visiting Senior Fellow, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries, New Delhi, India BALAJI PARTHASARATHY Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India T.T.SREEKUMAR Assistant Professor, Information and Communications Management Programme, National University of Singapore JAYAN JOSE THOMAS Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore BIAO XIANG Research Officer, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK.

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