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itihaasa History of Indian IT: Case Study of a Unique Digital Museum

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of itihaasa history of Indian IT, a unique digital museum chronicling the evolution of Indian IT over six decades. itihaasa is a free mobile app that captures important milestones defining the history of Indian IT in the voice of key actors who shaped them. It has a rich repertoire of original oral history videos, digital documents, and photographs from personal archives and publications. Users can navigate the itihaasa app based on timeline, people or organization views. Or they can search tags to access specific content. It is unique because the evolution of Indian IT is captured as oral histories of multiple key actors who shaped important milestones, and business history is presented in an entirely digital format.

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        SIGMIS-CPR '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research
        June 2017
        220 pages
        ISBN:9781450350372
        DOI:10.1145/3084381

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