Sub-standard education in government schools, delayed infrastructural projects, migration from villages and towns, lack of employment skills in the youth — these were a few problems that Union secretaries cited in their reports to the PMO after they visited the districts from where they had started their Indian Administrative Service careers.
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A silent e-revolution is sweeping across UP’s hinterland. Riding high on the e-wave, rural UP in particular has performed exceedingly well in switching over to the government’s online services, despite facing an acute crisis of power and trained manpower.
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As India is going to achieve a 25% share in global mobile phone manufacturing by 2019, the industry expects that the Union Budget will encourage domestic manufacturing with policies like tax holidays and interest subsidies and help the Indian telecom sector reach new benchmarks. The mobile segment in India has immense potential and can be…
The Internet.org Innovation Challenge in India supports Internet.org’s vision of a connected world by recognizing those who are working to make the internet more relevant to women, students, farmers and migrant workers in India. Our goal with this challenge is to encourage the development of apps, websites and online services that provide real value for…
Today, in a statement given to Wired, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler revealed his plan to reclassify ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. It’s a striking victory for net neutrality advocates who have been fighting for years to solidify internet protections using Title II authority — and it’s the first time…
The preparations of the Brazil Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting are well under way. After consulting the wider Internet community and discussing the overarching theme of the 2015 IGF meeting, the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) decided to retain the title “Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development”.
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Going to school is becoming an increasingly dangerous proposition for girls around the world. Schools in at least 70 countries experienced some form of attack between 2009 and 2014, said the United Nations in a new report. Girls were overwhelmingly the target of such attacks. High-profile cases, like the assassination attempt of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai…
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is concerned that a number of proposed amendments to Thailand’s law relating to military courts, which are due for consideration this week, are not in line with international standards, according to a the High Commissioner’s spokesperson.
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High-profile attacks such as the abduction of 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said on Monday.
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The report, which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, depicts a country suffering from increasing turmoil and lawlessness, inflamed by a multitude of competing, heavily armed groups and a broadening political crisis. Against such a backdrop, it calls for bolstering State institutions, urges accountability for rights violations and support for…