Foresight Analysis of ICT Adoption in India: A Framework on Vision 2020

Abstract

Abstract: In the era of digital world, technological convergence through ICT has been receiving a significant attention. The ubiquitous connectivity provided through convergence has the potential to transform the society and establish an ecosystem to serve new dimensions to the economy of the country. Thereby, this study has attempted to identify the phenomenon of convergence on three levelupstream, midstream and downstream. Upstream level focuses on issues dealing with the synthesis of technology including R&D, FDI and Standards. Midstream level focuses on the growth of various sectors with the help of convergence including education, health, governance and employment. The downstream level focuses on the diffusion of technology in the society and includes factors likediffusion, penetration and user friendly. The framework of Vision 2020 laid down by Planning Commission (Niti Aayog) has been adopted to choose the parameters and foresight exercise has been conducted. The opinions of experts have been taken to conduct the foresight analysis. With the help of LIPSOR scenario planning tools -Micmac, Mactor, Multipol and Smic-Prob, this paper has attempted to forecast the scenarios for the adoption of ICT in India. Following the variable analysis through Micmac and actor analysis through Mactor, this paper has attempted to generate the entire field of possibilities in terms of hypothesis and construct various scenarios through Multipol. And lastly, final scenarios were selected using the Smic-Prob by assigning the probability to all the scenarios (including the conditional probability).

A novel neutrosophical approach in stakeholder analysis for sustainable fashion supply chains

“…Finally, a stakeholder convergence graph is designed (Godet, 2004;Godet, 2000a, b). MACTOR is implemented in various field of studies such as supply and value chain management (Ram ırez-G omez and Rodr ıguez-Espinosa, 2022; Bozkurt and Kadaifci, 2021), tourism industry sustainability (Mafruhah et al, 2020), flood risk reduction (Isa et al, 2019), ICT adoption (Chopra and Desai, 2019), migrant worker policy (Mafruhah et al, 2019), integrated farming (Suryawati et al, 2021), and cooperation in restoration techniques (Fetoui et al, 2021).…”

“…Sustainable fashion practices also vary by location/place/country. As it is highlighted in the literature, the researches focuses on Turkish textile industry provide insides from fabric manufacturing (Alkaya and Demirer, 2014), while a Brazilian case focusing on reverse logistics implementations (Bouzon and Govindan, 2015), a Swedish case conducting a circular economy practice via a closed loop supply chain structure (Brydges, 2021), a case of Hong Kong emphasizing the mass market second-hand clothing retail operations (Chan et al ., 2015), ICT Adoption in India (Chopra and Desai, 2019), practices of sustainable clothing designers in Helsinki (Gurova and Morozova, 2018), green fashion marketing of Romanian organizations (Muntean and Stremtan, 2010), and sustainable trends in Vietnam's fashion supply chain (Nayak et al , 2019).…”