A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. – Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel Ayn Rand’s philosophy in her seminal classic Atlas Shrugged, in which she compares entrepreneurs…
To enable hassle-free access to documents such as school certificates for renewing passports or download school textbooks free of cost, the Modi government is all set to launch a one-stop shop shortly. Starting 1 July, the government will launch many projects under Modi’s $18 billion ‘Digital India’ initiative, one of them being ‘eBasta’. “eBasta is…
GSMA, the world’s largest telecom lobby group, has said that it’s highly imperative for the government to remove constraints and allay industry concerns to pave a way for PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative. “The government’s vision is good and mobile industry is enthusiastic to support the Digital India program while mobile broadband is…
Digital platforms in the early days provided connects between the employment providers and employment seekers. Over the last few years, while we have seen the proliferation of startups and millions of dollars being invested to back the budding entrepreneurs who are conceiving dream enterprises on the strength of digital access, a whole new opportunity is…
By exposing the names and addresses of foreign relatives, the cyber theft of private information on US security clearance holders by hackers linked to China will complicate the deployment and promotion of American intelligence professionals with special language skills and diverse backgrounds, current and former US officials say. Officials fear that China will seek to…
Minister for Information Technology, Youth Services and Sports Moulvi Imran Raza Ansari has said that significant progress in the field of core IT infrastructure has been made, adding that State Data Centre is fully functional. He said 5 State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) services have already been launched and touched the mandated number (1109) of…
The excise and taxation department of UT administration has come up with e-registration for the taxpayer identification number (TIN) under the Value Added Tax and Central Sales Tax Act. It is part of the Commercial Tax-Mission Mode Project under the aegis of the Central government for efficient delivery of services to the business community. On…
After having worked as a labourer at a construction site and in agriculture fields, life of two girls from a rural area in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh took a major turn when a common service centre owner and software professional Tanuja Raichuria picked them up to work for an e-governance project at Common Service Center…
There were days when people used to write to ministers talking about their grievances and were responded back which later faded. Now, our tech-savvy Prime Minister is bringing those old times back by ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’. Previous governments have tried incorporating e-governance but all they could manage was hollow promises which were never fructified.…