Digital India to focus equally on content development and infrastructural aspects

The ‘Digital India’ initiative will focus equally on non-infrastructural aspects like upgrading of skill, content development and raising awareness along with the laying down of broadband lines connecting gram panchayats across the country. This is to ensure that the project isn’t delayed beyond 2019, the scheduled deadline, as users and operators come to grips with…

India Could Use Its Historic Free Speech Judgment to Reset Its Position on Internet Governance. Will It?

“The global can never become meaningful unless it is linked to the local,” said Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Information and Technology Minister, speaking at 2014’s Cyfy Internet governance conference. For India, local is a billion aspirations. Local, in 2015, implies a constituency that carries greater demographic weight than Europe and the United States combined. Local…