Sharma, A: Information Communication Technology

Information and Communication Technology: Researches in Uttarakhand 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 rural development. Another major focus of the book is the implication of Information Communication tools as Mobile Phone, Media Mix, Television, e- Chaupal and Community Radio in the era of globalization. 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. This book can contribute towards helping different communication professionals, students, researchers, actors, planners and radio programme producers in community radio stations to make more efficient use of community media for community development by getting people involved in clarifying issues and solving problems and in talking to each other.