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| Title: | Implications for Library and Information Services: A Study of India’s IT Revolution and Public Policies |
| Authors: | Tariq, Ashraf
Puja, Anand |
| Keywords: | Information technology
Public policy telecommunication
Library and information
Digital divide
India |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2007 |
| Publisher: | Library & Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya |
| Abstract: | The paper describes the role of information, information technology (IT) and discusses the
infrastructure, human resources, telecommunication, research and development in IT in Indian
context. It highlights the features of liberalization policy of the Indian government; software policy
of 1986; development in networking and growth of IT industry in the country, and documents the
proliferation and focuses on the relationship among policies and outcome in terms of its impact on
various fields of life specially library and information services. It describes the limitation of Indian
digital revolution in reaching out to the general masses and the various factors responsible for the
lopsided character of information revolution. |
| Description: | In Building an information society for all: proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICoLIS 2007, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 26-27 June 2007 |
| URI: | http://dspace.fsktm.um.edu.my/handle/1812/245 |
| Appears in Collections: | ICoLIS2007
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