sources_infotech&dev

Aditya Dev Sood: "How to Wire Rural India: Problems and Possibilities of Digital Development", EPW, October 27, 2001, pp. 4134-4141.
    "Rather than remaining locked in the paradigm of an eternally developing it now seems possible to
     aspire to becoming a knowledge society."

Pradip N. Thomas: "Copyright and Emerging Knowledge Economy in India", EPW, June 16, 2001.
    "While the designs of global agro and pharmaceutical industries in the area of patents have received
     critical attention, the impact of the global copyright regime on the rights of local people to invent,
     appropriate and innovate in the area of media/information has received little critical attention. This
     article explores the impact of the copyright regime on the Indian media industry and possible responses
     towards the democratisation of IPR in India."

John Howkins & Robert Valantin (Ed): "Development and the Information Age", IDRC, 1997
    [B.P61.V1]
    "An attempt to imagine different scenarios emerging for the world as a result of the revolution in
     information technologies and assuming different policy packages and social conditions."

William Dutton (Ed): "Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities", OUP, 1996
    [B.P61.D2]
    "Resulting a study into the broader social implications of the inforamation technology developments,
     it covers a broad range of topids."

Cees J. Hamelink: "Trends in World Communication: On Disempowerment and Self-Empowerment", Southbound, 1994 [B.P61.H1]

Avinash Jha: "Background to Globalisation", CED, 2000 [B.U00.J1]
 

K. G. Kumar: "Beyond the Market: Freedom Matters", EPW, September 8, 2001, pp. 3435-3439.
    "By basing itself on moral rectitude and ethical resoluteness, the Free Software Movement seeks to
     focus on the importance of `freedom' as in `free speech' or `free elections', and not gratis, as in `free
     beer'. In the process, it has invited the wrath of the likes of Microsoft."

Sarai: "The Public Domain - Sarai Reader 01", Sarai, 2001 [B.P60.S2]
 

McChesney, Wood and Foster (Ed): "Capitalism and the Informaion Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution", Monthly Review Press, New York, 1998 [B.P61.M4]