ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emergence of an informational perspective within the domain of civil society and it argues that civil society is a partner to the state in conceiving the info-nation. The chapter looks at how informationalism manifests itself as a grassroots social movement through an analysis of the struggle to pass the Right to Information Act. It describes the nascent emergence of an informational state by looking at changes in telecom and broadcasting regulations, at initiatives undertaken in the realm of e-governance, and at the discursive congruence between corporate and state policies on issues of equity and justice. The chapter argues that the push toward an info-nation is equally present within the domain of civil society. The grassroots movement that resulted in the passage of the Right to Information Act demanded that every citizen possess a basic set of informational rights. In other-words, it claimed that in the digital age the citizen-subject was first and foremost an informational subject.
