Universal access of ICTs can't be a goal by itself. As reaching out to the poorest of the poor remains the formidable age-old challenge, ICTs can play a disruptive impact on poverty elimination, and on universal access to other centuries old infrastructures – like that of basic education to...

Internet, as a massive disruptive technology and as a General Purpose Technology, has offered tremendous opportunities to redefine human society. In order to identify critical impact of Internet on society, this thesis categorizes diverse Internet applications into four major groups, namely (1)...

Aspirations of nations and brand-nations are inevitably linked with rise of nations, its economic power, its military muscle and also on its influence on regional and global geopolitics. Brand India has been a young concept, younger than the growth story of India which in 2008 would be five...

Many view the emergence of ‘New-Age Dotcoms’ as foundations of tomorrow’s disruptive forces to have significant impact on many of our future products, services and even on broader creative economy, whereas others view it as a passing phase of the original disruptions brought in by the...

This case discusses; (1) Google''s business model; (2) the business of search engines; (3) the industry structure; (4) the on-going consolidations; (5) on-line advertisements and their role in e-commerce; (6) Google''s competitive positioning; (7) the emerging trends in Internet; (8) network...