Social Media, IT Industry and the Digital Divide
With a plethora of Social media tools now available and with it now being a mainstream mode of real media communication in our country, a lot of questions arise. The most important one is "What does it mean for the general population of India?" Its a known fact that the Indian IT Industry does not permit access to social media at workplace.This is treated to be a waste of time and viewed as contributor to drop in employee productivity. This is a bit weird since the tech industry itself feels technology can be left out in the whole game.The most happening innovations that catch public attention are today happening on the web and this is bound to make a big difference to our lives. A thought that lingers is " Does that mean that in a world of dot net and java programming, maturity models and best practices are we shielding access to some ideas that are changing the way we connect? " This is something that the Indian IT Industry must really seriously look into. ...