TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Pradip TI - Digital India: understanding information, communication, and social change SN - 9788132109044 (hardback): AV - HC435.3 .T566 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi, India, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE Publications KW - Information technology KW - Economic aspects KW - India KW - Social change N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. An introduction to the digital moment in India -- Section1. Information Technology in a Liberalised Economy: 2. The software industry in India; 3. Mobile phones in India : issues related to access and use -- Section 2. Government 1.0 and Information technology: 4. Telecommunications and universal service obligations in India; 5. A critique of ICTs in development -- Section 3. Government 2.0 and Information Technology: 6. E-government, e-governance, and governmentality; 7. Intellectual property conundrums and the state in the era of the digital; 8. Public sector software in India -- Section 4. Contested Information Technology: 9. Piracy in the contested city: access, distribution and equity ER -