Preface

Osama Manzar

Foreword

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Prologue

N. Ravi Shanker

Acknowledgements

Chronology of the Internet in India

Introduction

Madanmohan Rao

 

Part I: Foundations

Internet and India: A Bond That’s Growing Stronger

Manish Dalal

The Future is in the Cloud

Rajnesh D. Singh

Part II: The Pioneers

Bringing the Internet to India

Srinivasan Ramani

Birth and Growth of Internet in India

T.H. Chowdary

India’s Internet Policy and Regulatory Regime

Amitabh Singhal

From BB (Bulletin Boards) to BB (Broad Band) Internet

Suchit Nanda

From NRIs to Indians to Global Citizens: Evolution of the Indian Presence on the Internet

B.G. Mahesh

The IndiaWorld Story

Rajesh Jain

Part III: Internet Impacts

e-Panchayat: Digital Networks for Government Efficiency

D.K. Jain

e-Government in India: Converting The Digital Divide Into A Digital Opportunity

Ashis Sanyal

Internet in India: Impact on Farming

Venkataraman Balaji

The Internet in a Developing Society

Usha Vyasulu Reddy

Fifteen years of Internet in India: Impact in Educational Institutes

S. Sadagopan

India’s transition to a Knowledge Economy

Amir Ullah Khan

Impact of the Internet on Skills & Education in India

Ganesh Natarajan

Internet and Education in India: Crisscross connection

Mira K Desai

Financial inclusion and the Internet

Arun Jethmalani

News Media: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Sunil Saxena

Internet Literacy in a Globalised Media World

Keval J. Kumar

The Evolution of E-Commerce in India: A Policy Perspective

Alwyn Didar Singh

Part IV: Case Studies

Telemedicine and the Internet

Arjun Kalyanpur

Development Dialogues on, for, and via the Internet

Frederick Noronha

India Infoline: A Story of Internet Transformation

Nirmal Jain

Rural Business and the Internet: Sustainability, Profitability and role of Governance

Satyan Mishra and Nitin Gachhayat

Part V: Looking Ahead

A Decade of Cyberlaw in India

Pavan Duggal

The New Iron Ore and the Roar of the Cloud

Sunny Ghosh and Sanjukt K. Saha

25 Years of .Com: Looking Back and Forward

Patrick Kane

From Landline to Mobile: India’s Internet Boom?

Vijay Shekar Sharma

The New Complexity of Internet Governance

Wolfgang Kleinwächter

Epilogue

Sam Pitroda

Bios of Editors

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