Taking forward one of his marquee projects, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inaugurate the Digital India week on Wednesday. The event will be attended by some of the top corporate leaders of the country including Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani, Cyrus Mistry, chairman of Tata Sons, Wipro’s Azim Premji and Anil Agarwal of the Vedanta group among…
There are around 5 billion connected devices in the world, which are expected to grow to 26 billion by 2020 as internet of things (IoT) gains traction, says an estimate by technology major Ericsson. The growth would be led by growing number of smart devices run on digital platforms with sensors and radio frequency identities.…
As the government makes a fresh bid to push the Digital India programme, which has been snagged with delays in the National Optic Fibre Network (NoFN) and other hurdles, experts said various issues like working out the revenue model, work flow automation, creating an ecosystem for it and others would have to be addressed to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known for attracting top corporates and investors to support his events and the mega-launch ofDigital India plan in the national capital on July 1 is going to be no different. Going by the plan, around 400 top CEOs, including Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry,Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, Azim Premji,…
The Government’s ambitious “Digital India” plan aims to digitally connect all of India’s villages and gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. By the year 2019, the ‘Digital India’ program of the Government of India (GOI), envisages that 250,000 Indian villages will enjoy broadband connectivity, and universal…
A report in India suggests SVoD platform Netflix will launch in the Asian territory before 2016. Citing unnamed sources, the Times of India reported the US-based platform had “firmed up plans” to enter territory, a move that was concerning local DTH players. Should Netflix launch in India, it would be the second American-owned SVOD service…
A GSM Association report, “Building Digital Societies in Asia”, is based on a study of digital societies in six countries – Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan. It found that each country had a digital-society policy framework – Thailand’s Digital Economy Plan, Digital Bangladesh, Digital India, the Indonesia Broadband Plan, Digital Malaysia, and Pakistan’s…
Information technology and consultancy biggies such as Hewlett Packard, KPMGand Deloitte are in race to create the ambitious global digital push for Make-in-India initiative that plans to reach out to thousands of “influencers”, people of eminence and celebrities across the world, a first such initiative by the Indian government ever. The government plans to completely…
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said that popularising rural BPOs was high on his priority list. “We are going to come out with an expression of interest for rural BPOs. You know, I always say, Tata, Birla or Ambani have made millions and millions. There are certain game changing moments in…
SPREP Pte Ltd., a company formed as a part of the strategic alliance in 2013 between Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Shapoorji Pallonji Group, today announced its first acquisition. SPREP Pte Ltd. has entered into definitive agreements to acquire 100% of the securities of Faery Estates Private Limited, an Indian company which owns,…