By the late 1980s, the parastatal authorities responsible for infrastructure delivery and planning in the Bangalore metropolitan region were encountering complex problems and pressure from lending agencies that pushed them toward capacity-building exercises utilizing electronic tools, including geographic information systems. Simultaneously, a network of non-governmental organizations and private consulting firms were developing within Bangalore that specialized in the application of geographic information systems tools for the solution of development problems. The result of these inter-related changes was the gradual assembly of multi-organizational teams for the implementation of development projects involving computerized mapping and database construction. This process represented a movement away from earlier centralized models of planning, and characterized an organizational matrix typically associated with the milieu of innovation or the regional growth pole. The investigation of this process in Bangalore allows the construction of a case study applicable to the analysis of technological and organizational change associated with urbanization and the information society within South Asia.
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Aug 17, 2004
Sanjay Kumar Singh 
