Introduction to development communication -- Major theories following modernization -- United nations and specialized agencies -- The roles of non governmental organizations (NGOs) -- Differing world views of culture -- Re-examining assumptions about technology and context within research on international development programs : a scheme for positioning an integrationist perspective -- Information and communication technologies and the global digital divide : determinants and conditions affecting least developing countries and poor global populations -- Communication, feminism, materialism, and non-materialism in the post-development age -- Sonagachi project : a case-study of applying principles of development communication and participation to a community based intervention -- Roma project : a case-study of development communication in the open -- Society institute.