Peddlers of information : Indian non-government organizations in the information age / Tanya Jakimow.
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- Economic development projects -- India
- Rural development projects -- India
- Information technology -- India
- Poor -- India
- Non-governmental organizations -- India
- Projets de développement économique -- Inde
- Projets de développement rural -- Inde
- Technologie de l'information -- Inde
- Pauvres -- Inde
- Organisations non gouvernementales -- Inde
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- Economic development projects
- Information technology
- Non-governmental organizations
- Poor
- Rural development projects
- India
- 338.954 23
- HC440.E44 J35 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.
Introduction -- A place for NGOs? : normative and perverse roles in the information age -- From brokers and translators to peddlers of information -- Hunting and gathering in the information age -- The rise and fall of IVD : an economy of practices in the NGO sector -- Information for development : cultivating model developing citizens -- Knowledge about development : understanding problems and creating solutions -- NGOs in the information age.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can help them escape poverty. ICTs also provide local NGOs that work with the poor access to knowledge that can guide them in implementing better development programs. Such ideas reflect long-held notions about the role of knowledge provision as a tool for development. But as author Tanya Jakimow shows, the consequences of the "information age" are often unintended and deviate greatly from our image of an interconnected, modern world. Not only do most page
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