ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addresses contemporary understandings, initiatives and concerns of social development with computers, particularly in Almora, a small town in Uttarakhand, India. It describes usage of the cell phone in maintaining social networks hints at the continuing and strengthening migration of males to the city and the geographical fragmentations of the family unit. The book shows new and heavily invested public-private sector schemes in agriculture strive to provide farmers with access to computers to circumvent middlemen. It describes when the owner and staff collude to create the biology assignment for the student "client" through specific and detailed instructions. The book focuses on the shopping spree online for information, giving us the Westernization of Native American art, the beautification of the classic Ravi Varma and the uncomfortable positioning of Mona Lisa with bathroom tiles. It reminds that international development is serious business.
