1. Digital Divide: An Indian Scenario Dr. H.S. CHOPRA Ph.D. (His); Ph.D. (Lib & Inf. Sc.) Head, Guru Nanak Dev University Library, Amritsar (Punjab), India Chopra_gndu@yahoo.com
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4. Emergence of “Digital Divide in India” because of Telecommunication and Information Technology
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14. World Development Indicators 99 587 542 99 566 Japan 99 630 749 97 196 U.S.A - 32 12 37 60 India Schools Connected to Internet Per 100 Internet Users Per 1000 Personal Computers Per 1000 Televisions Per 100 Daily News Paper per 1000
15. 7.6 9.0 3.8 GDP % ICT Expenditure 2,732 21.1 257 1,038 145.8 Japan 3,595 14.9 783 3,305 129.0 U.S.A 24 8.7 1 11 0.6 India Per Capita $ Price Basket for Internet $ Per month Application secure internet Servers per million International Bandwidth bits per capita Broad Band Subscribers Per 1000
16. World Divide in Research Publications in Science and Technology (2001) based on World Development Report 2006 6 20,978 China 2 57,420 Japan 1 2,00,870 U.S.A 12 11,076 India Rank in the World Research Articles