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    ICT applications in public healthcare system in India: A review

    2002
    This study is a review of ICT applications in public healthcare system in India. It is not the number of employees that decides the quality of service but their efficiency. In public health, resources are few, time is extremely limited (with the threats of outbreak of epidemics like AIDS) and results have to be achieved in a limited time frame.
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    Building Capabilities and Capacity through ICT for Medical Students and Schools in India

    2012
    This whitepaper discusses and showcases some success stories on Increasing the capacity and productivity of the medical education system in India and ensuring it is developing highly competent medical professionals is essential to increasing the overall capacity of the healthcare system.
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    ICT policy in India in the era of liberalisation: its impact and consequences

    2001
    This paper tries to bring out the role of Indian state as an actor in responding to the ICT policy with special reference to the two task force reports highlighted in for carrying out this study. Response is here understood as the ‘role’ played by the Indian state towards putting policy statements into practice.
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    ICT Innovation in Contemporary India: Three Emerging Narratives

    2010
    The paper we present here discusses ICT innovation in India using a narrative framework. We argue that ICT innovation has not really been a subject matter sufficiently researched in information systems from the perspective of innovation in developing countries.
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    Initiatives in ICT for rural development: An Indian perspective

    2011
    Various initiatives in the recent past portrayed the significant role that the I.C.T plays in the realm of rural development. Several projects have reduced the costs, and it also has increased transparency.
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    Use of ICT for Women Empowerment in India

    2013
    The concept of gender equality is a common concern all over the World. The same has now acquired new dimensions with the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The ICT has a potential to bring development for a nation. It can reduce trade distortions, eliminate poverty, empower weaker segments including women, etc.
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    ICT Sector Statistics in India – Current Status

    2010
    This study offers ICT sector Statistics in India. In India, much work on measuring the impact of the IT industry on economic growth and employment has been carried out. The Government of India has been making sustained efforts to improve the availability of ICT data for policy making and research.
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    Role of mHealth in rural health in India and opportunities for collaboration

    2011
    Rapid adoption of mobile telephony in rural India and absence of other information and communication technology media have prompted the social sector to exploit mobile communication as a dependable and effective ICT media.
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    India Runway: Guide for understanding ICT

    2011
    This document is recommended to be used to structure India, to understand its innovation ecosystem in general and specifically in ICT in the central government and national levels, briefly also in state level. It should be used also to outline business and innovation potential in this huge and quickly growing and developing nation or rather a subcontinent.
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    Mobile-izing Health Workers in Rural India

    2010
    Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail because political, social and cultural forces work against the changes ICTs entail.

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