Intel India has announced plans for delivering digital literacy in the country. The company has announced plans for training persons at the panchayat levels of 1,000 villages that are set to receive broadband connectivity under the National Optic Fibre Network. Debjani Ghosh, Vice-President Sales and Marketing Group, and Managing Director Intel South Asia, said this…
Pampakuda in Ernakulam district is going to be the first ‘digital panchayat’ in Kerala next month by building a database of all residents. The digital database includes the personal details of all residents, such as occupation, educational level, bank account number, Aadhaar number, blood group, phone number, the availability of drinking water among other things.…
The government is gearing up for its next big mission, a Rs. 113,000-crore plan that aims to usher in a digital revolution by moving everything online, from education to public services to bureaucracy. Aptly called ‘e-kranti’, it comes under the Narendra Modi government’s ‘Digital India’ initiative and is quite simply the world’s most ambitious broadband project — but…
On a chilly winter morning, Kalapana Verma, a 17-year-old girl from north India’s Uttar Pradesh state starts her journey from a thatched hut in Bheera village. Traversing the paddy fields and muddy village road, she cycles for about 12 kilometers before reaching a computer learning institute in Raebareli, the nearest town. Over the last year…
Facebook on Monday said that it is rolling out upgraded search capabilities for mobile and desktop users who want to find favourite posts from their friends on the huge social network. “You’ve told us the most important thing is being able to find posts you’ve seen before, and now you can,” said Facebook vice president…
The Union government for the first time conceded before the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it was abuse of power under Section 66A of Information and Technology Act to arrest two Mumbai-based girls for Facebook posts criticizing shutdown of the city on November 18, 2012 for Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s funeral. Additional solicitor general…
India fared better this year when it came to freedom of the Net, while globally Internet freedom declined for the fourth consecutive year in 2014 with a growing number of countries introducing more aggressive online censorship and monitoring practices, said a report by Freedom House, an independent watchdog. The global Freedom on the Net report 2014, which…
We live at the most interconnected moment in human history. From India’s rural hinterlands to the coastal metropolises of Africa, from American suburbs to East Asia’s bustling, hi-tech cities, access to the Internet dictates daily rhythms and opens doors for new opportunities. Yet, as a recent McKinsey report pointed out, the majority of the world’s population — about…
Cybercrime has become a challenge and this needs to be addressed by taking a relook at the IT Act and revamping criminal laws, government told the Rajya Sabha. “This is a challenge before the government. In order to counter the challenge, IT Act needs to be relooked,” minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said…
Singer Barbra Streisand and the governments of Turkey and Pakistan have little in common. But there is one thing: All have tried to censor the Internet, and all have failed miserably. In a new paper, Zubair Nabi, with IBM Research’s big data and analytics research group in Ireland, details how the so-called “Streisand effect” plays out over and…