Technology, Policy and Inclusion

ISBN-13: 9781032225456 / Twarda / 2023 / 260 str.

Opis

Technology, Policy and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting effective governance and examines how these can be mitigated through technological interventions in developing countries.

Spis treści

List of Figures vii

List of Tables x

Editor bios xi

List of Contributors xiv

Foreword xix

Preface and Acknowledgements xxi

1 Technology and Policy: Points of Intersection 1

Anjal Prakash, Aarushi Jain, Puran Singh, and Avik Sarkar

2 Digital Governance: A Case of COVID Management in India 15

Aarushi Jain, Ankit Anand, and Isha Mahajan

3 Digital Census and Application of Advanced Technologies in Census: Perspectives from the Forthcoming Census of India 43

Abhishek Jain and Varinder Kaur

4 Envisioning Smart Real Estate Digital Infrastructure for Madhya Pradesh 75

Mausmi Hajela, Girish Sharma, and Sudhir Chaudhary

5 Critical Success Factors for Enabling a National Data Exchange Platform 116

Ankit Anand

6 Striving to Build Citizens’ Trust in Digital World: Data Protection Bill (2021) of India 141

Charru Malhotra and Anushka Bhilwar

7 Digital Education Leading to a Digital Divide: As an Emerging Form of Inequality 162

Jyoti Sharma

8 Old Caste Exclusions and New Digital Divides 179

Anant Kamath

9 Improving Farmer Income through Digitisation: Analysing e-Markets 206

Abhisheik Vishwakarma and Amrita Chakraborty

10 Technology and Financial Inclusion: A Study of Technology’s Role in the Continuity of Banking Agents 225

Sanal Gupta and Puran Singh

Annexure- 1 249

Annexure- 2 251

Index 252

O autorze

Anjal Prakash is the Clinical Associate Professor (Research) and Research Director at Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India.

Aarushi Jain is the Policy Director at Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business, leading educational initiatives, projects, government engagements and outreach activities.

Puran Singh is an Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), Himachal Pradesh, India.

Avik Sarkar is currently associated with the Indian School of Business (ISB), Mohali, India, working and teaching in the areas of data, emerging technology, and public policy.