some links to essays

These are just essays, but they're very well written essays, and if zipped together, you actually get an e-anthology.

If you know of more, do add to this thread. They're written by very intelligent people.

Hint:

if you google 'kellogg techventure anthology', you will find others like these, just as brilliantly written by top MBAs.

IT Organization of the Future
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ITorg_of_the_future.pdf


Infosys On Balanced Scorecard
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/Aligning%20IT%20Implementation%20to%20Business%20strategy.pdf


Integrating Customers Into Your Value Chain
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/integrating%20customers%20into%20ValueChain.pdf


Fundamentals Of Telecommunications
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/fund_telecom.pdf


Pursuing Excellence In Supply Chain Management
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/pursuing%20excellence%20in%20supply%20chain%20management.pdf


Reengineering Using BPM Technologies
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/Reeng_using_BPMtech.pdf


Wireless SMS
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/SMS.PDF


Wireless Financial Services
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~inno/20039.pdf


Tailoring Supply Chain To Respond To Shifting Demand
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/Tailoring%20Supply%20Chains%20to%20respond%20to%20shifting%20demand.pdf


Three Lenses For Viewing IT Costs
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/3%20lenses%20for%20it%20costs.pdf


Access Mediation
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ACC_MED.PDF


ADSL
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ADSL.PDF


Application Services Framework
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/APP_SERV.PDF


Asynchronous Transfer Mode Fundamentals
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ATM_FUND.PDF


Passive Optical Networks
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ATM_PON.PDF


Telecoms Networks Deployment
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/deploy_telecom.pdf


Digital Loop Carrier
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/DLC.PDF


DSL-ATM Convergence
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/DSL_ATM.PDF


DTM Fundamentals
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/DTM_FUND.PDF


IBM On Electronic Commerce
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/e_commerce.pdf


Embedded TMN Solutions
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/embed_tmn.pdf


Fibre-to-Home
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/fiber_home.pdf


Fibre-Optic Technology
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/fiber_optic.pdf


GSM
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/GSM.PDF


IP Internetworking Transport

http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/ip_int.pdf


Optical Access
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/opt_acc.pdf


Optical Network
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/OPT_NET.PDF


Optical Transmission
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/opt_trans.pdf


Specification-and-Description Language
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/sdl.pdf


Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/DWDM.PDF


Copper Loop Management In Local Loop Migration
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~infiniti/COPPER.PDF


Concept Maps
http://dilbert.iiml.ac.in/~vivekg/itm/What%20is%20a%20Concept%20Map.pdf



Inset: Visual Basic Tutorial
http://www.vbtutor.net/vbtutor.html

Amendment to take life out of RTI Act: CIC

Amendment to take life out of RTI Act: CIC

What is wrong with my country (i know thats a mere rhetoric as the simple answer is - our politicians). But still...
as this report says, and also on what I have been reading about in newspapers about this wonderful act, if the mentioned step is taken, we are just ruining the single step we took in years to eradicate corruption from the system

OP Kejriwal, member, Central Information Commissioner on Thursday night said the Union Cabinet's decision to exclude officials' notings on government files from the purview of the Right to Information Act will take "life out of the law".

"Information minus the file notings amount to taking the life out of the RTI Act," Kejriwal said in an interview to a private news channel.

"There were hundreds, literally hundreds, who got their ration cards, electricity connections only by filing an application where they asked what was the daily progress of the applications and who were the officers dealing with their applications.

"Now if the file notings are closed, the entire process is stalled," he said.

Kejriwal said, "Once you try to save the names of officials, you try to hide the way the file has moved. What remains in the Act?"

The basic objective of the Act, he pointed out, is to prevent and put a stop to corruption.

"We earnestly hope that the government sees to it that the Act remains its basic strength," he said.

India 12th richest nation

India 12th richest nation in 2005: World Bank

USA - $12.46 trillion
Japan - $4.51 trillion
Germany - $2.78 trillion

Britain
France
Italy
Spain
Canada
Brazil
South Korea

India - $785.47 billion or Rs 35,34,615 crore

Mexico, Russia and Australia.