India and the European Union (EU) forged a new digital partnership and discussed potential for collaboration in the fields of technology and innovation besides cooperation to create smart cities. The first India-EU Strategic Dialogue Series, organised by UK-based policy platform India Inc. alongside key players like Microsoft and McKinsey, focussed on ‘Delivering Smart Communities’ as…
More than three million of the world’s poorest people have been forced from their homes, land and jobs over the past decade by World Bank-funded projects, an investigation showed on Thursday as the global lender vowed to review its policies. The World Bank, which aims to end extreme poverty, has repeatedly violated its own policies…
Secretary, Information Technology Department, Saurabh Bhagat inaugurated one day workshop on National Digital Literacy Mission here today. The workshop was organised by CSC e-Governance Services India Limited in association with Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JakeGa) under the vision of ‘A collaborative approach to extend Digital Literacy to Rural Masses.’ Speaking on the occasion, Bhagat…
A strom has been brewing in the virtual sphere over the last few days and in all likelihood, you would have come across the term ‘Net neutrality’ and the ‘Save the internet’ campaign. As technical as it may sound, it is actually a game-changer that may alter the way we use the internet. Indian telecom…
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s Facebook account was disabled after her posts were reported by Islamic fundamentalists, the author said on Wednesday. Dubbing the move as “totally unacceptable”, eminent writers raised doubts over Facebook’s “open” nature and called for safeguards to be put in place. “Since Tuesday my Facebook account has been disabled. Despite several…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a question and answer session on his company’s website recently. Two of the key things Zuckerberg revealed in the session was that he still supports net neutrality and may bring Internet.org to Europe. The principle of net neutrality, according to which all internet traffic must be treated equally, makes sure…
Hackers, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at internet security company FireEye Inc said. In a report released on Monday, FireEye said the cyber espionage operations dated back to at least 2005 and “focused on targets – government and commercial…
The idea of an open internet can bring together not just worried netizens but politicians of all hues. On a day when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India got more than 2 lakh emails by Monday afternoon from Indian netizens annoyed by possible efforts to make internet an unequal space, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and…
As a debate rages on ‘net neutrality’, a discussion paper floated by regulator TRAI has said that mobile applications providing free internet-based calls and messaging services can be a threat to individual and national security. Besides, it has also come down heavily on taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola, as also e-commerce platforms, saying they…
Net neutrality is not only about making certain information and services available for free and paying for others but also universal and equal access to information. Breaking net neutrality puts that at risk, say industry experts and netizens. If Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are allowed to discriminate between information they could potentially break the free…