Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India: Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity

by G. Parayil (Editor)

Overview

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 sk of the political economy implications of informational development in India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403992444
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/25/2005
Series:	Technology, Globalization and Development
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Information Capitalism; G.Parayil ICTs and Decoupled Development: Theories, Trajectories and Transitions; A.P.D'Costa The Political Economy of IT-Driven Outsourcing; C.P.Chandrasekhar ICTs for the Rural Poor: Civil Society and Cyber-Libertarian Developmentalism in India; T.T.Sreekumar The Perils of Excessive Export Orientation; K.J.Joseph Informational Development in Rural Areas: Some Evidence from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala; J.J.Thomas Building a 'Soft Region' on Hard Legacies: The Informational Economy in Andhra Pradesh, India; K.Eischen The Political Economy of the Indian Software Industry; B.Parthasarathy Working With Uncertainty in the IT Industry; B.Xiang The Political Economy of Informational Development: A Normative Appraisal; G.Parayil