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According to the Judicial Registrar of the High Court, case records are now available to
litigants and the National Informatics Centre [NIC] has designed, developed and hosts these
sites for the general public on the two Web sites:
http://www.judis.nic.in/orissajudis, and
http://causelists.nic.in/orissa.
4. Conclusions: Strategies beyond merely Implementing ICT
National and state governments, the international agencies are all attempting to marshal their
resources to provide telecom networks and Internet connectivity to fill in the digital gap
across nations, across societies, across urban and rural populations (19 out of 20 people
world-wide still have no access to the Internet). The corporations and mainstream ICT actors
are working for cutting costs and improving the quality and delivery of basic ICT
infrastructure and services. However majority of those in rural and semi urban areas who do
not as yet have access to ICT services will have to be convinced of the benefits they can
derive from the expanded infrastructure and services. The Indian initiatives in the Subaltern
ICT Trajectory as described in this chapter, provide a good starting point for looking into
these issues, for devising strategies that go beyond the technology fix of expanding ICT
infrastructure (to minimise the Digital Divide), and which utilise strategies that will ensure an
expanded participation through Digital Provide in the building of the Knowledge Economy.
Acknowledgement
The primary sources for this report were online informations obtained from a wide variety of
web sites. Apart from these, and the URLs of the projects themselves, information was
gleaned through personal telephone contact or through e-mail contact with people involved in
the various projects. We wish to put on record the invaluable contribution made by them and
by Tarun Kanti Bose and Rajkumar Andrews.
References and Resource Materials
Government of India (1998). National Task Force on IT and Software Development.
http://it-taskforce.nic.in/
GCIS: Government Communications and Information System (2001). "GCIS Training
Programme in Communications."
http://www.gcis.gov.za/media/index.html