Digitalisation and Development Issues for India and Beyond
This book investigates the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on development and well-being (beyond economic benefits) and highlights some emerging issues relating to the realities, constraints and digital divides with particular
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Digitalisation and Development Issues for India and Beyond
Digitalisation and Development “India is undergoing rapid digitalization thanks to wide-spread diffusion of mobile phones across the country. While boosting India’s economic growth, this process also exacerbates social challenges in terms of digital exclusion and inequalities. To understand the trade-offs between opportunities and challenges posed by digitalization, this book takes an expansive and multi-disciplinary perspective, combining insights from a variety of socio-economic dimensions. This offers an original and multifaceted view, which will be highly relevant for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in the current processes of digitalization and development.” —Professor Govindan Parayil, Dean and Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA “This work is a balanced and comprehensive survey and analysis of India’s engagement with the ICT revolution including international comparisons. It is especially strong in mapping and assessing the channels of influence and the array of consequences from this engagement.” —Professor Edward Steinmueller, R.M. Phillips Professor for the Economics of Innovation, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Brighton, UK “The digital economy is now the buzzword, but we know little about its developmental implications. This fine book addresses the gap in the literature, using India as a case-study.” —Professor Kunal Sen, Director, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
Dibyendu Maiti Fulvio Castellacci Arne Melchior •
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Editors Dibyendu Maiti Delhi School of Economics Delhi, India Arne Melchior Senior Research Fellow Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Oslo, Norway
Fulvio Castellacci Head of Department Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-981-13-9995-4 ISBN 978-981-13-9996-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9996-1
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