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Tables of Contents for India's Communication Revolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
12
1
List of Figures
13
1
List of Plates
14
3
Preface
17
10
India's Communication Revolution
27
39
Migrant Indian Cyberworkers
28
2
The New Communication Technologies
30
3
Development Communication
33
2
The Informatization Route to Development
35
8
Informatization
38
2
Electronic Governance: Information Technology for Public Service
40
3
India's Road to Informatization
43
9
The New Economic Policy
44
1
Information Technology Policy
45
3
Azim Premji: India's Cyber Czar
48
3
India's Informatization Score
51
1
Astounding Achievements by Indian High-Tech Entrepreneurs
52
1
The Rate of Adoption of Communication Media in India
52
8
The Press
54
1
Radio
55
1
Broadcast Television
55
1
Cable and Private Television Networks
56
1
Telecommunications
57
1
The Internet
58
1
NavinMail: Bridging the Distance between the U.S. and India
59
1
The Role of Research Universities in High-Technology
60
2
IITs and IIMs
60
1
IT Training in India
61
1
Conclusions
62
1
Notes
63
3
The Public Broadcasting Revolution
66
40
Radio Broadcasting in India
67
13
Radio's Development Potential
70
1
Entertainment-Education
71
4
Community Effects of Radio in Lutsaan
75
5
Private FM Radio
80
2
Internet Broadcasting: Anyplace, Anytime
81
1
The Television Revolution in India
82
6
SITE and INSAT
84
4
The Rise of Entertainment
88
5
Hum Log: A Turning Point
90
1
The Arrival of Cable and Satellite Channels
91
2
Television for Development: Missed Opportunities
93
4
SITE
93
1
The Kheda Communication Project
94
2
Chicken-Mesh Antennae and Ruggedized Television Sets
96
1
The Scorecard for Indian Public Broadcasting
97
6
Jhabua Development Communication Project
100
2
Contentious Policy Issues
102
1
Conclusions
103
1
Notes
104
2
The Private Television Revolution
106
24
The Birth of Private Television
107
14
The Cable Television Wars
108
3
STAR-TV
111
2
Zee-TV
113
1
Subhash Chandra: India's Media Mogul
113
4
SONY
117
1
MTV India
117
3
Discovery Channel
120
1
Impacts of Private Television on Doordarshan
121
1
Impacts of Private Television on Indian Audiences
122
3
Consumerism
122
1
Conservative Nationalism
123
1
Changing Female Images
124
1
Cable Television: The Backbone of Digital Convergence
125
2
Conclusions
127
1
Notes
128
2
Rising Technopolises
130
53
The Technologies underlying Technopolises
131
1
What is High-Technology?
132
3
High-Technology and the New Economy
134
1
Spin-offs
135
1
Technopolis
135
5
Agglomeration
138
2
California's Silicon Valley
140
9
The New Gold Rush
142
1
Epinions.com: The Mother of All Shopping Services
143
2
How Indians Get Rich in Silicon Valley
145
4
The Indian Diaspora
149
15
Lata Krishnan: Successful Woman Entrepreneur
151
2
Successful Indians in Silicon Valley
153
6
Malaviya and Deshpande: Success on Boston's Route 128
159
5
Austin's ``Silicon Hills''
164
3
Sulekha: The Global Web Magazine from Austin
166
1
Bangalore: India's ``Silicon Plateau''
167
1
Historical Background of Bangalore
168
5
The Mysore Military Rockets
169
1
Bangalore Becomes Silicon Plateau
170
3
Hyderabad: An Emerging Technopolis
173
3
Government Policies toward High-Tech Development
176
3
Problems in Paradise
178
1
Conclusions
179
1
Notes
180
3
The Telecommunications Revolution
183
28
India's Telecommunications Expansion
186
4
The Rise of Mobile Telephony
189
1
Changing Telecommunications Policies
190
14
Rajiv Gandhi: Sowing the Seeds of Social Change
193
1
Sam Pitroda: Telecommunications Visionary for the Informatization Strategy
194
4
The New Economic Policy
198
1
Keeping Up with State-of-the-Art Technology: WLL
199
1
Problems in Implementing Policy
200
3
Get a Mobile Phone, Pay Income Tax
203
1
Telephony for Rural Development
204
3
Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Telecommunications Access
204
3
The Kittur Rural Telephony Project
207
1
Conclusions
207
1
Notes
208
3
The Computer and Internet Revolution
211
42
The Growth of Computers in India
212
8
Computer Adoption in India
216
1
Arjun Malhotra: From HCL to Techspan
216
4
Impacts of Computers in India
220
2
Inequalities and Growing Information Gaps
220
2
Computer Software in India
222
9
Narayana Murthy: Software Tycoon
223
3
Offshore Software Development
226
2
Skilled Workforce
228
1
Competitive Advantage
229
1
Supportive Government Policy
230
1
Computer Software versus Hardware
231
1
The Internet Revolution
232
3
Hand-Held Internet Microbrowsing
234
1
Growth of the Internet in India
235
4
Cyber Cafes
235
2
Internet Policy in India
237
2
U.S. Hegemony on the Net
239
1
Internet: The Highway for a Global Economy
239
2
Goodbye Silicon, Hello Internet
240
1
India's Knowledge-Based Virtual Age
241
8
Remote Processing: A Gargantuan Opportunity for India
242
1
A 24-Hour Cyber Office
243
1
E-Commerce in India
244
2
Love Goel: Direct Selling through the Internet
246
3
The Internet and Privacy
249
1
Conclusions
249
1
Notes
250
3
Lessons Learned About Informatization
253
24
A Summary of Main Concepts
254
3
Lessons Learned
257
6
Looking Backward
263
3
Looking Forward
266
5
New Opportunities for Communication Research
269
2
Responsible Entrepreneurship: Sharing the Pie?
271
4
Notes
275
2
Glossary of Concepts
277
3
References
280
11
Name Index
291
4
Subject Index
295