Digital technologies and practices are the devices of empowerment to people in India and reworking the best way companies and providers are being carried out and provided, stated main IT personalities and officers on Friday. At the panel dialogue ‘Accelerating the Digital transition’ organised on the Global Exhibition on Services 2015 right here, Kiran Karnik,…
Digital technologies and practices are the instruments of empowerment to individuals in India and transforming the way businesses and services are being conducted and offered, said leading IT personalities and officials on Friday. At the panel discussion ‘Accelerating the Digital transition’ organised at the Global Exhibition on Services 2015 here, Kiran Karnik, chairman, CII National…
GOAL, a PERFORM group portal, today announces a strategic partnership with Times Internet, the largest Indian Digital Network, for delivering worldwide content. Through this partnership, Goal is set to continue its significant growth in India, leveraging Times Internet’s 100 million monthly unique users. Perform and Times Internet will collaborate in creating a unique blend of…
Dear Mark, I read your article in Mint (16 April, mintne.ws/1yudRTC ) and realized that you are in the dark about Net neutrality as much as I am but you have also violated it. The reason I’m responding to your article is because you mentioned your trip to Chandauli in Alwar district in Rajasthan last…
Is using a mobile phone a symbol of independence? Is it a simple tool of communication or a medium that provides rights? Why do women lag behind among those who use cellphones? Why do women have to take permission from men before buying a mobile phone that connects them to the world out there? The…
What is the cost of information, or the lack of it? For some, it is a life, for some other, a monthly pension, and for yet another, the monthly subsidized ration. In India, millions of people lose their rights, entitlements, assets, education, pension, wages, food and water, land and livestock, housing, medicine, health and access…
The people in Gop block in Odisha have something more powerful than anyone else in the country has—an FM community radio station (CRS) called Radio Namaskar with a licence to broadcast using a 50-watt transmitter, enough to cover a 20km radius. Sometime in 2011, the local community heard jingles about the government’s integrated child development…
Into the second decade of the 21st century, it is commonplace to speak of the information economy and the world being a connected globe. India is very much a part of that story because our country has the third-largest number of Internet users in the world, after only the US and China. But that rank…
The difference between cities and villages in India has always been stark. Services that people in urban areas take for granted are often simply not available in the countryside. This is particularly true when we look at the digital divide that creates a gulf between urban and rural India.
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Libraries are the life blood of a nation. This is particularly true for a country such as India, which has a large number of young people aspiring for a better life. Yet, our public libraries are grossly neglected. Each one of the country’s 676 districts has at least one public library, an enormous resource that…