Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India

Shows how the National Rural Employment Guarantee program in India has confronted last mile problems in implementation Casts new light on the challenges and benefits of using information and technology to implement development programs Includes a rare ethnographic study of a developmental program that illuminates the multilevel contestation of bureaucrats, politicians, and social movements Borrows the term "patching" from tech to systemically think about addressing problems in socioeconomic development