Kerala is all set for a giant leap in e-Governance. Following in the footsteps of states like Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Karnataka, the state will form a Virtual IT cadre to conceptualise, implement and manage e-Governance projects. The idea is to build a team through internal selection from skilled and qualified employees within departments and to…
The Modi government, which never tires of swearing by an impending digital revolution, needs to pull up its socks if the current status of the National Optical Fibre Network is anything to go by. The dream of bringing broadband services to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats across India is still far from being realised with the…
After adopting villages with the aim of turning them into models of development, the government now wants to adopt panchayats and make their functioning fully digital. These panchayats, selected from 10 states, will perform all functions — from planning, accounting and service delivery like issuance of certificates, licenses — online. “It has now been decided…
The union minister of state (independent charge) for skill development, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, recently said that India’s skilled workforce is 2%, compared to over 75% in all major economies. In this backdrop, the government us working on a new skill development policy to address shortcomings of the existing policy. Although skill development can improve “employment-readiness”,…
A two-hour drive from Gandhinagar, Gujarat’s administrative heartland, is the small, nondescript hamlet of Akodara in Sabarkantha district. With a population of just 1,054 as per the 2011 census, the primary occupation of villagers here is farming and dairy. What has catapulted this progressive little village on to the national map as a model for…
With urban India, the world’s largest middle-class population, now deciphered and more or less conquered, it is time to tap into what could be the world’s last and the largest untapped markets – ’emerging India’. While urban India was a difficult market to crack, rural India will be nothing short of an enigma. On one side is…
Happy Creative Services has expanded to offer digital solutions team.
The 18-member team comprises of Akshaye Madhok as digital director, Sanaa Abdussamad as creative lead, Anoop Menon as digital strategist, Sumana Samuk as group account director and Madhu Sudan as digital producer.
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The Centre’s large-scale plans of digitalisation do not have HCL Technologies too excited.
The company is keeping a close watch on the government’s white papers on Internet of Things as well as digitalisation agenda. It is waiting for a time when the government seeks end-to-end solutions and changes.
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In January, the Versova police had initially refused to register a senior citizen’s bank fraud complaint because its sole officer equipped to handle cyber crime investigation was away for training. To avoid such instances in future, the Maharashtra police has decided that all officers will have to undergo a refresher course after every two years…
The state department of information technology (IT) recently ordered a public sector bank to pay Rs 40 lakh as compensationto two non-resident Indians (NRIs) who were victims of email hacking and subsequent unauthorised transfer of funds from their account. In his order, Rajesh Aggarwal, the IT department’s outgoing principal secretary and adjudicating officer, said that…