New Information Technologies, India and the North-South Relations

Information technology is the Lifeblood of many other technologies, and in fact as often carrying mechanism through which other technological developments become operational.Access to economic data is a long term necessity in that mass media must reorganize and reconceptualize in order to serve development needs and that the stress, it is felt, has to be on the direct relationship between communication development and realities of third world economic necessities. In other words, the economic, political and developmental contexts of Third World Countries need to be understood on the basis of genuine communication needs rather than technological 'Wants'.The question that remains as afresh in our mind in this part of the Third World: Communication for what, on whose terms, on what basis, with what principles and with what effects for the future?The issue is no longer how to influence or gain access to the information networks of coroporate business or powerful governments.In Paul Ansah's words,the goal is, decolonization of information.This work examines the relationships between means and ends,between social system,institutional forms & organizational structures,it is a policy work.