Information and Communication Technology : Recasting Development sets out to illustrate the application of ICTs for recasting development in India and several other developing societies. This path-breaking book explores the applications of ICTs in the core sectors of agriculture, healthcare, geographic information system, networking, rural and industrial development. Another major focus of the book is the implication of communication convergence, the development of cyber journalism, electronic organizational communication, e-public relations, e-governance and e-democracy in the era of globalization. The book raises several fundamental questions on development policy and communication research and responds to the polemic issue of bridging the digital divide in India that can inspire the development efforts of several developing countries. The scholars of international strength who have broadened the ICT for development debate have great pleasure in recommending this book to academia, researchers, policy framers and professionals in communication and information science, IT, development studies, extension studies, rural development, development economics and planning and social policy. It is hoped that this book will be a valuable resource for future research and policy formation, management and intervention in national development.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Contributors I. Prologue 1. Information and Communication Technology for Development in India Rethinking Media Policy and Research/Kiran Prasad II. ICT Applications and Limitations 2. Information and Communication Technologies Applications and Limitations/A. Neelameghan 3. Information Technology Boon or Bane/Umesh Arya Jangid III. ICT for Development 4. Communication Technologies and Information Support for Development in India/Amardeep and M.A. Ansari 5. Satellite Communication for Agricultural Extension and Rural Development/Narendrasinh B. Chauhan 6. Information Technoligies and Development Clusters as Economic Policy tools for India/Joel Ruet 7. Community Radio in India Social Implications/Vasuki Belavadi 8. Telemedicine in India Information Technology for Healthcare/Waheeda Sultana IV. Applied Research in ICT 9. Geographic Information in the ICT era What has changed and how?/Sebastien Oliveau 10. Ethnographic Action Research A Method for Implementing and Evaluating New Media Technologies/Jo Tacchi, Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan V. Communication Convergence and Development 11. Communication Convergence and Development Concerns in India/Kiran Prasad 12. Communication Convergence, Networking and Development/Joshva Raja VI. New Media for Effective Communication 13. Cyber Journalism/Roy Mathew 14. New Media in International Communication Countering US Mainstream Media Views in the Iraq Wars / Madanmohan Rao 15. E-governance Ushering in an era of E-democracy/I. Arul Aram 16. Technology in Organizational Communication A recursive relationship between Organizational Culture and E-mail/Abraham Ninan 17. New Media and Public Relations Practice/Kiran Prasad VII. Epilogue 18. Bridging the Digital Divide in India/Subhash R. Joshi