Connecting Masses
This book is an effort to compile the successful deployment of ICT and digital media enabled projects, its impact and learning that in many ways have impacted the society at large based upon the cases from India and South Asia. This book also advocates the necessity of “digital content and services” over just “technology deployment” in the name of infrastructure but not going beyond that. The learning from this book is “map the need and necessities of the users and the stakeholders, then choose the right technology and medium”.
Ashis Sanyal: Ashis is senior director(e-Gov) with Department of Information Technology, Government of India. He is responsible for drafting Govt. Policy guidelines, Strategy and Framework for Core e-Governance Infrastructure related to e-Governance services. He is the mission leader of the 850 million USD core e-Gov Infrastructure Project of State Wide Area Networks involving 29 states and 6 union territories and also the alternate mission leader for the 1.4 billion USD project of establishing 100,000 Common Services Centres in the rural India, under the national e-Governance plan of the Government of India. Ashis has published more than 45 technical papers in various areas of engineering, system, design and e-Governance activities in national and International journals. Ashis can be reached at ashis.sanyal@gmail.com.
Syed Kazi: Syed is a Policy Support and National Program Manager with Digital Empowerment Foundation, and completing his Ph.D in e-Gov from Center for Law & Governance, Jawaharlal University. Recently Syed has founded an organization called North East Development Foundation to exclusively work for the holistic development of North East. He can be reached at syedskazi@gmail.com.
Osama Manzar: Osama Manzar is founder and Director of Digital Empowerment Foundation. His 18 years of adventures include journalism, new media, entrepreneurship before delved fully into social entrepreneurship through DEF. his other titles are “Internet Economy of India” and e-Content: Voices from the Ground”. He is on the board of World Summit Award, and also Chairman of Manthan Award- Best e-Content for development. He can be reached at osama@defindia.net.
R. Chandrashekhar: He is an IAS Officer, Special Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India. He can be reached at ssdit@mit.gov.in
Editors: Osama Manzar, Ashis Sanyal, Syed S. Kazi
Foreword by: R. Chandrashekhar
Contributory Price: INR 300
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