James Montgomery, Director of Digital Development, BBC News and Current Affairs, spoke to exchange4media about BBC’s digital plan and how India is emerging as one of the largest digital markets. Speaking on the digital market scenario in India, he said, “India is one of the most dynamic and fast changing media markets in the world…
The ‘Digital India’ initiative will focus equally on non-infrastructural aspects like upgrading of skill, content development and raising awareness along with the laying down of broadband lines connecting gram panchayats across the country. This is to ensure that the project isn’t delayed beyond 2019, the scheduled deadline, as users and operators come to grips with…
“The global can never become meaningful unless it is linked to the local,” said Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Information and Technology Minister, speaking at 2014’s Cyfy Internet governance conference. For India, local is a billion aspirations. Local, in 2015, implies a constituency that carries greater demographic weight than Europe and the United States combined. Local…
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Minister of State for Skill Development Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Friday said that the government has taken a decision to transfer the Training and Apprenticeship verticals of the Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET) from the Labour Ministry to his ministry
Tokyo-based telecom giant NTT Communications is planning to open a new data centre through its subsidiary Netmagic in Mumbai by the end of current calendar year with an investment of $100 million. Netmagic Solutions, a managed services provider, was acquired by NTT Communications in 2012. NTT, which offers voice and video solutions and network services…
Bharti Airtel has strongly defended its under-fire Airtel Zero scheme, saying it doesn’t violate the concept of a free Internet and is just an option for customers to access apps for free, with the ultimate aim being to get more people onto the Web. In a letter to chief executives of companies and Airtel employees,…
TRAI on Friday reiterated the plan to have a minimum speed of 2Mbps on broadband for 600 million users in the country by 2020 as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative. The plan also envisages that a speed of 100 mbps will be made available on demand. TRAI’s latest recommendations suggest…
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What is the relationship between a typical Indian village, Facebook, Internet.org and Mark Zuckerberg? It was 10 October, last month, that Zuckerberg visited an unheard of village called Chandauli in Umrain block of Alwar district in Rajasthan. The visit was not incidental nor was accidental. It had been planned more than a month in advance…