[India] Social research and planning for the knowledge society

["Irfan Khan" <khania@super.net.pk>]

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Social research and planning for the knowledge society

The Centre for Knowledge Societies [http://www.cks-b.org/ ],
Bangalore, enables the State, private sector and civil society
organisations to collaborate in ensuring that ICTs have a maximally
enabling and inclusive developmental impact. All state and central
government departments seem to be using IT for new and innovative
programmes. The websites of several NGOs claim that they will solve
poverty and social inequality through IT. Just about every business
magazine seems to have photographs of rural cybercafe owners, and
fishermen using Global Positioning Systems. There is a wave of
excitement about IT in Development, and it is increasingly difficult
to sift the hyperbole from the real impact of information and
communications access on the people of India. On the other hand,
India’s vast development sector is still largely unaware of the uses
to which ICTs could be put, and many fear that this technology will
further exclude the most deprived sections of society.

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