For Karnataka to be a real knowledge society, it is important to look beyond the opportunities which are emerging in the formal economy and formal education sectors; to understand and examine the transformative knowledge possibilities which have opened up vis-a-vis the daily lives of people and...

Global regimes around trade, investment and intellectual property have mostly been conceptualized and written by the North. Developing countries were typically late to understand their real implications, by which time these had got too entrenched to admit structural changes towards fairly...

Over the last ten years, “open” innovations – the sharing of information and communications resources without access restrictions or cost – have emerged within international development. But do these innovations empower poor and marginalized populations? This book examines whether, for...

This paper is based on a presentation made at the ‘Global Forum on Access and Connectivity: Innovative Funding for ICT for Development’, of the UNGAID, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May 2008. It critically examines the dominant approach to ICTD, capturing the significance of a rights-based...

Digital technologies once held the promise to be a great equalizer. As a digital economy takes shape, global inequalities however are rising sharply. Vertically integrated global digital corporations are set to rule every sector of the economy based on their exclusive control over its data,...