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<font face="sans-serif">McTim<br>
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And if, in response to my cited figures about India, you may want to
say that the real full impact of ICTs may be yet to come to India, you
may be interested in the statistics of the 'front yard' , the US, where
the new innovation based 'ecosystems' you speak of have had the longest
play.<br>
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To quote from the academic paper at </font><span
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style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><span class="f"><cite><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.networkideas.org/ideasact/jan09/PDF/Fine.pdf">www.networkideas.org/ideasact/jan09/PDF/Fine.pdf</a>
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<blockquote><font face="sans-serif">"Over the period of neo-liberalism,
from the mid-1970s, there have been dramatic and</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">uniquely extreme reversals in the evolving
patterns of income distribution in the United</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">States. Whilst, without wishing to finesse
the figures, the average income of 90% of the</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">population has stagnated, the share of income
of the top 1% has increased from well</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">below 10% to around double that. "</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif">These figures, along with those below about
India, may take some gloss off the supposedly big and neutrally (or
equally for all) advantageous role that ICTs are touted to play in our
socio-economic systems.<br>
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Parminder <br>
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On Saturday 06 November 2010 06:49 PM, parminder wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif">McTim<br>
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Rest of your responses to my proposal are a bit of a standard exchange
between us, and I may have not have much new to say, but I will like to
make a comment on the following. <br>
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On Saturday 06 November 2010 01:26 PM, McTim wrote:
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<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>And if we think there is a global vacuum vis a vis global IG policies, what
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>is our analysis about whose interests such a vacuum serves,
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<pre wrap="">It seems to have served innovation quite well, built economies and
eco-sytems. Look at your own backyard to find the
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About my backyard, two things<br>
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one, pl read this article about the recent 2010 UNDP HDR report, from
which I quote <br>
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<blockquote><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">"India has
failed to make any significant improvement in its poverty figures,with
over </span><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT">400 million
-- more than the total i</span><span id="advenueINTEXT"
name="advenueINTEXT">n the poorest African nations -- still struck in
poverty, the Human Development Report 2010 said today, listing India at
the 119th position on the Human Development Index.</span>" ( some more
details, that may be startling to some, at
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.mydigitalfc.com/economy/indias-growth-fails-translate-poverty-alleviation-hdr-024">http://www.mydigitalfc.com/economy/indias-growth-fails-translate-poverty-alleviation-hdr-024</a>
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One may wonder how in this time of ICTs and instant news from all over
the world, people seem to keep getting not too right a picture of where
and how things really may be in India. Any comments on this?<br>
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Second thing about my backyard, I did share with the list a few weeks
back, mobile companies are colonizing the mobile Internet in India by
the day like nobody's business. Mobile Internet is facebook, google and
yahoo, not the neutral and open Internet we seem to be thinking and
talking about here. I have no doubt that, going this way, the Internet
would soon turn into an instrument of increased dependency of the
marginalised on outside forces and agents. Its potential for empowering
local, community based processes is being increasingly compromised. <br>
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So, yes, I do look at my backyard, and my comments and my proposal are
informed by it.<br>
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Parminder <br>
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