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Communications and Society Program
Minds on Fire: Enhancing India's Knowledge Workforce
By Richard P. Adler
A nation is empowered by its people. A people are empowered by their capabilities. People’s capabilities are created by investments in their education, well-being and skills, and [by] providing them with opportunities for gainful productive employment.
-- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (source: www.indiaempowered.com/full_story.php?content_id=76329)
Today, India is ahead. But it has to work very hard if it wants to keep this position.
-- Tom Friedman, The World is Flat
Minds on Fire: Enhancing India’s Knowledge Workforce offers practical solutions to India’s predicted shortage of skilled labor to keep up with the country’s fast growing economy. One suggestion from the participants of the 2007 Aspen India/ C&S Joint Roundtable on Communications Policy described in the report is to promote Learning 2.0 in India—open source learning made possible by the web. The report contains a proposal for Knowledge Learning Centers within Special Economic Zones in India.
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FOREWORD, Charles M. Firestone
MINDS ON FIRE: ENHANCING INDIA’S KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE, Richard P. Adler
A Very Short History of the Indian Economy
India’s IT Sector and the Looming Staffing Crunch
The Trouble with Higher Education
Bringing Learning 2.0 to India
Meetings with Government Ministers
Notes
Proposal for Knowledge Learning Centers
Members of the Open Courseware Consortium (July 2007)About the Aspen Institute India
About the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program