The Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. It originally appears each week on Global Voices Advocacy. Ellery Roberts Biddle, Lisa Ferguson, Sam Kellogg, Hae-in Lim, and Sarah Myers West contributed to this report. When technology companies leave their code open and visible to…
The MoU will come into effect from June5 2015, and will remain effective for a period of three years NATHEALTH signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Task Force Health Care (TFHC) Working Group India in the presence of The Prime Minister of The Netherlands Mark Rutte. Dutch Ministers Lilianne Ploumen – Foreign Trade…
Keen to realize and implement the proposed India Health Information Network (IHIN) initiative, the Union health ministry has recently constituted a working group to recommend its governance structure. Once the modalities of this network are finalized, it will provide a unique platform for the private players and the government to synergise and work together for…
Headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, GEMALTO (GTO.PA) is an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices. According to the recent Breach Level Index (BLI) by SafeNet, 1,500 data breaches occurred worldwide in 2014, leading to one billion compromised data records. 2014 also saw a sharp rise in data breaches (49 percent) and data…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the “Digital India” campaign on August 21, 2014. This programme aims to change India into an electronically empowered economy. The idea behind it is to facilitate interaction between government departments and Indian citizens through a digital or electronic medium, leading to better governance. This is also a green initiative that…
Nethra* was a school friend. When I shook the small-town dust off my Batas and went away to a big-city college, we naturally lost touch. Five years later, a mutual friend called. “Did you hear? She passed away.” Within a few hours, my Facebook timeline was flooded with posts from her wall. Friends and cousins…
If tech clairvoyants and futuristic movies are to be believed, paper money is on its way out. In its stead, digital money will become the preferred choice for all financial transactions in the not-too-distant future. Supporting the digital wave is a host of new digital offerings promising ‘anytime and anywhere’ access to your money and…
COSMOS monitors online attendance of teachers and students in schools, which are tracked on administrative website, mobile app and tablets of COSMOS through biometric device. For this biometric devices are installed in several schools and a target has been set to install them in all 2054 government schools of Balrampur district to monitor the regularity…
Parliamentary secretary agriculture and chairman NSAMB Dr. Benjongliba Aier has stressed on usage of fertilizers, saying until this was given due importance productivity would go down and the “Vision 2025: Food for all” might not be achieved. Addressing the review meeting of the department of Agriculture at the conference hall, directorate of the Agriculture here…
The Delhi government has been working towards encouraging use of m-governance and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red-tapism from the system, stated Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Government of NCT of Delhi, while addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do Business’ organized by FICCI. Sisodia assured…