Information Communication Technologies – Promotion by and Profit for theEducated and Perception by Voter-masses

摘要

In India a few new generation political leaders saw ICTs as the engines of economicrndevelopment, good governance and means of rapidly providing employment to the well-qualifiedrnprofessionals. They evangelised the benefits of ICTs and undertook extensivernand intensive e-governance projects. Infrastructure for making their states the preferredrndestination for location of businesses and for the production of ICT and software basedrnservice was created. While these measures did bring in wonderful and demonstrablernresults in a few cities, the deep seated and extensive problem of poverty alleviation andrnemployment were seem to have been neglected. And this perception of the votingrnmasses was whipped up by whichever party was in opposition to the Government. Thernfar-seeing leaders promoting ICTs got a drubbing in the elections. The lessons learntrnfrom this six-year-old great programme are mentioned.