Digital Learning Legal Background Paper: Digital Learning in India Export

@misc{citeulike:1410540, abstract = {In the world of learning, India is a unique country. Perhaps among the most traditional societies in the world, India has now become a leader in the Digital Age of high technology. In particular, its software industry has brought the country to a prominence it has not known since ancient times. The leaders of Indian industry are ambitious for their future, and hope that India may one day overtake the United States in software development. A troubling contradiction lies at the heart of India's technological prowess. Of the Indian population of one billion people, generous estimates of the size of its middle class peak at 300 million. The figure is impressive. It represents very nearly the entire population of the United States, and it is from the numbers of the middle-class that the success of Indian high-technology and its growing domestic marketplace are drawn. However, the remaining 700 million Indians live under quite different conditions, a significant number subsisting on the unimaginable equivalent of less than one American dollar a day.}, author = {Rajan, Mira T.}, citeulike-article-id = {1410540}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/dl_india}, howpublished = {http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/dl\_india}, keywords = {berkman, digital, learning, legal}, posted-at = {2007-06-25 12:58:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Digital Learning Legal Background Paper: Digital Learning in India}, url = {http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/dl_india} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1410540 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1410540 N2 - In the world of learning, India is a unique country. Perhaps among the most traditional societies in the world, India has now become a leader in the Digital Age of high technology. In particular, its software industry has brought the country to a prominence it has not known since ancient times. The leaders of Indian industry are ambitious for their future, and hope that India may one day overtake the United States in software development. A troubling contradiction lies at the heart of India’s technological prowess. Of the Indian population of one billion people, generous estimates of the size of its middle class peak at 300 million. The figure is impressive. It represents very nearly the entire population of the United States, and it is from the numbers of the middle-class that the success of Indian high-technology and its growing domestic marketplace are drawn. However, the remaining 700 million Indians live under quite different conditions, a significant number subsisting on the unimaginable equivalent of less than one American dollar a day. TI - Digital Learning Legal Background Paper: Digital Learning in India KW - berkman KW - digital KW - learning KW - legal AU - Rajan, Mira UR - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/dl_india ER -