ICT and Indian Development

The experience of production, diffusion and use of ICTs in India has been intriguing and complex. Not only does India have one of the fastest growing ICT sectors in the world, it is also home to one of the largest set of civil society experiments using ICTs to empower the marginalised. Against the backdrop of these issues and concerns deliberations at a three-day international seminar held in December 2002 found that lessons learnt in the ICT sector about the complexity of technological diffusion and social change and the importance of public policy institutions have not found their way into policy-making.