Kiran, a Brussels-based entrepreneur, has been looking for ways to expand his business dreams across Europe. Keen to launch a digital magazine and a multi-city accelerator programme for start-ups, he found it difficult to do with an Indian citizenship as it involved too much paperwork and few doors opened. When he heard about Estonia’s E-residency…
The popular hawkers on Indian streets would be roped in by an NRI-owned non-profit private organization for an online network of merchant banking system to market a digital currency rivalling Bitcoin. Canada-based Trestor Foundation’s founder Kunal Dixit said such small businesses, which forms part of the two billion people without banking facilities worldwide, will form…
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the future belongs to digital media due to its reach. He asked government officials dealing with information dissemination to package data and facts according to contemporary trends and media`s requirements. Inaugurating a workshop here on `Streamlining government communication`, the minister said the present environment offered a tremendous opportunity to…
“State of Internet Rights and Freedom in India” February 4th, 2015 Venue: India International Centre Lecture Hall 2, Annexxe 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003 Background Networking for freedom online and offline: Protecting freedom of information, expression and association on the internet in India, Malaysia and Pakistan. Objective The overall objective of the action…
President Barack Obama’s just concluded historic visit to India has laid the foundation for a relationship of hope and promise between India and the US. Among other areas, i believe this relationship has immense potential in the field of ICT and digital connectivity. Already 60% of India’s IT exports, worth $50 billion, cater to the…
The Centre is all set to launch an array of people-centric digital services under its ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme, a top official said here today. These services include digital lockers, cloud sharing, electronic signature, WiFi hot spots and e-textbook project among others. The details about upcoming services under ‘Digital India’ were shared by Secretary in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s one of the most ambitious dreams is to establish 100 Smart Cities across India. To realise his dream, the state governments and other stakeholders have started taking baby steps. They have chalked out the criteria for the selection and ranking of cities hoping to build ‘a new Chicago every year’ in…
Kerala is all set for a giant leap in e-Governance. Following in the footsteps of states like Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Karnataka, the state will form a Virtual IT cadre to conceptualise, implement and manage e-Governance projects. The idea is to build a team through internal selection from skilled and qualified employees within departments and to…
As many as 90 services of various government departments will soon be available with a single click of a mouse across 10 districts of west Uttar Pradesh. Officials said so far only 26 services were available through state service delivery gateway, including issuance of birth and death certificates, property tax returns, handicap certificates and others.…
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is the proud recipient of not one, but two e-governance awards. Even then, it claims it needs help of a private operator to operate the auto DCR, the computerized system that is used to approve building plans. The NMC was supposed to take over the system free of cost from…