Information Technology and Communications Resources for Sustainable Development

Edited by : Ashok Jhunjhunwala,

IIT Madras, India

Circuit Switched Telecom Network (evolution)

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, India

Packet Switched Data Network (and its evolution)

K Giridhar, IIT Madras, India

Fibre Optic Communication (Techno economics)

Anil Prabhakar & Dr.Balaji Srinivasan, IITMadras, Chennai-32, , India

Satellite Communications

Andrew Thangaraj, IIT Madras, India

Wireless and Mobile Communication (Including WLAN)

Uday B Desai, IIT Mumbai, Mumbai - 400076, India

Multimedia technologies: Voice and Video Coding

Devendra Jalihal, IIT Madras, Chennai -32, India

Multimedia technologies: Entertainment, Education, Tele Health, E-commerce, Voice based service

Multi-lingual technologies

Multi-modal Interface - Web interface,speech recognition,handwriting recognition,text to speech

Hema Moorthy, IITMadras, Chennai-32, India

Information System Management: Database, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Search Engine, Voice based Search engine

Display Technologies (visualization)

Sharan, LNMIT

GIS as a tool for development

P Venkatachalam, IIT Bombay, India

Storage Technologies

Artificial Intelligence

Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India

Integrated Circuit Technology

Evolution of Information & Communication Technology and rapidly declining costs

Vision and Information Technology

Subhasis Chaudhuri, IIT Bombay, India

Information & Communication Technology: Societal and Development Aspects

Natural IT and Resource Management (Water / Land / Energy / Food & Agriculture)

Balaji V, ICRISAT-IN

IT and Production Processes

IT and Work Organizationn & IT and Organization Management

IT and Business Process

Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft

IT and Banking

S.S.Satchidananda, IIIT Bangalore, India

IT and Transportation System

Information Infrastructure - Libraries

Rural and Sparse Area Communication System

Ashok jhunjhunwala, IITM & Sangamitra, India

IT and Human Resources Development

S Sadagopan, IIIT Banglore, India

Virtual communities in Information Age

Noshir Contractor, UIUC

Privacy and Security in Global Information society

Efforts of International bodies in IT Areas (World Bank, UN, ITU, UNDP) for ICT

Madan Mohan Rao, Tech Sparks

IT and Project Implementation

Reinventing Computing for the next billion users

Rajesh Jain

Digital Divide [Efforts of Organizations around the world Bank]

Richa Kumar & Joyojeet Pal, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

IT for Governance

IT for Rural Trade

Rural ICT and Regulations

Rohan Samarajiva