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1. Bhatnagar, Subhash and Robert Schware (2000), Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
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2. Endnotes * This research has been supported by grants from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, International Development Enterprises (India), and the Division of Social Sciences and the Academic Senate of the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am indebted to S. Sivakumar of ITC, P.G. Ponnapa of n-Logue, Ranjit Khosla of TARAhaat, and Satyan Mishra of Drishtee, for providing me with detailed information on their respective organizations, and for their extensive cooperation. I have received valuable suggestions and guidance on this research from Bibek Debroy and especially from P.D. Kaushik, who has been a valued collaborator on related work. I alone am responsible for remaining errors and omissions. Finally, I am grateful to all those individuals who generously gave their time at various sites I visited around India. 1 See Singh (2002) for a broader discussion of the potential role of IT in Indiaâs development.
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4. In India, these include Bhoomi in Karnataka, e-seva in Andhra Pradesh, Lokmitra in Rajasthan, and the CHOICE Project in Chattisgarh. See also Bhatnagar and Schware (2000) for further examples.
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