Is Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment providing Uttarakhand a possibility to enter the mainstream of 21st century knowledge?
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Active Political Leaders of Uttarakhand
Phatte ki Sarkar is trying to create a situation in which the active leaders of Uttarakhand, the CM, and the state itself become ideal idols. This is possible because the internet age has provided us with new tools. The ruling process of Globalization has created a favourable political climate for application of eBusiness for the development of rural areas and gradual reduction of world poverty. The world has developed communication facilities in the direction in which the eBusiness has been moving for centuries. It has not been, however, possible so far to replace human wisdom. The reason is the political approach of the humanity as a whole. The political climate in 1946 was in favour of paying attention to the countries of Asia, Africa and South America . But this climate is always eCentred. Every individual has to work for himself using the facilities provided by the political climate that is available to him or her at that particular time. In 1946 science was considered all mighty. Because America had made the atom bomb and won the war with this tool. But it started race for nuclear weapons and resulted in the cold war. The political climate changed and science lost importance in political minds. Only Jawaharlal Nehru focused on science but the rest of the political minds did not support him fully. Only the rural masses recognized him till today and politicians now know that that there is a political weight in Gandhi, Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and now Rahul Gandhi.
Internet is providing more and more information. The market forces behind the internet business are forced to carry as much of the past wisdom on internet as is possible. Only the scholars get benefited from this facility. Even companies are finding it difficult manage the flood of knowledge.
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Internet educates us with the following abstract of a paper Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project entitled by Yannick Rumpala, Faculty de Droit, des Sciences Politiques, conomiques et de Gestion/ERMES, Universit de Nice, Nice, France Published in: Twenty-First Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3 November 2009 , pages 277 – 295:
Modern-day society is increasingly described as an extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralysing description, this paper aims to highlight the potentially political dimension of network analysis, namely as defined in the social sciences, and of the notion of networks itself. It will be shown that a political project could, in this case, be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it. Three steps are proposed to specify how such a political project could be built. The first step aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasises the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step shows the possibilities that this knowledge offers, particularly in allowing one to find one's bearings in a world which is frequently described as veering towards an increasing complexity, and by helping to rebuild the selection criteria for connections in this world, thanks to an additional degree of reflexivity. The third step draws on these points to extend them and bring out potentialities with regards to the intervention capacities in network configurations.
You will note that the paper tries to show that a political project could be built on the desire to know this reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards it. This is what the Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment has been doing thus far. It has already covered the first step, that is, aims at deploying knowledge of networks and emphasing the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second step, ie, organizing technological nurseries to bring global knowledge at local levels has enormous possibilities. The third step of intervening in actual situations is obvious.
It is also obvious that Dhumakot Sangliya Experiment providing Uttarakhand a possibility to enter the mainstream of 21st century knowledge.
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