Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 102nd Indian Science Congress 2015 at the Mumbai University. This year’s theme of the Congress is Science and Technology for Human Development. The five-day event will witness deliberations and presentation of papers by the scientific fraternity from across the globe. More than 12 thousand delegates are expected…
The Centre has blocked 32 websites, including vimeo.com, dailymotion.com, pastebin.com and github.com, in an effort to curb ISIS propaganda, prompting a wave of online protests. An Indian “hacktivist” group, Anonymous India, has threatened reprisal. By Wednesday evening, however, websites that had complied with the government order to remove objectionable content had been unblocked, sources said.…
Hailing the Modi government’s ‘Digital India’ campaign as a revolutionary plan to bridge the gap between the digital haves and have-nots, Ravi Shankar Prasad said the entire profile of India will change in the next four to five years. Inspired by the rapid strides made by India’s first telecom and technology start-up in Kerala’s port…
The State government will introduce Mee Kosam, an online grievance redressal system, as part of efforts to expeditiously resolve public grievances. Slated for launch on Sankranti, the new system is considered as a prelude to the State government’s plan to roll out Smart AP. Mee Kosam is being designed to keep track of the complaints…
Digital India to me, is one of those visionary ideas that has the potential and depth to transform India. What excites me most about it is that it promises to fix a serious problem that has held India back. For years, we have been the IT hub for the world and our IT workers have…
Meghraj will accelerate delivery of services and optimise spending on ICT The Government of India (GI) Cloud project (Mehgraj) is an ambitious cloud computing architecture for government department and agencies. The first phase of the project was launched on 4th February, 2014 and is being implemented by the National Informatics Center (NIC). Currently, 61 departments…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will float a consultation paper on regulating Over the Top (OTT) players by third week of January. The authority’s chairman Dr Rahul Khullar told ET that the process would seek to define ‘net neutrality.’ The development comes on the day the country’s largest telecom operator, Airtel with drew…
Cybercriminals are looking at ways to exploit tech giant Apple’s recently-launched digital payment solution Apple Pay, according to top cybersecurity solutions firm Trend Micro. Even though no actual attacks on Apple Pay have been reported yet, Trend Micro’s ‘Security Prediction for 2015 and Beyond’ warned that cybercriminals will increase attacks on mobile payment systems. “It’s…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 30: In a major initiative that may revolutionise the general education sector, Kerala is all set to introduce multi-media “Digital Collaborative Textbooks” (DCT), the first of its kind in the country, in government schools. This digital textbook will comprise information contributed by persons around the globe in audio or video formats, besides the…
We recently caught up with Debjani Ghosh, Managing Director of Intel, South Asia, and talked India’s digital literacy initiatives and its potential impact on the nation’s growth. Intel, with their National Digital Literacy Mission, have set their sights on the goal of making at least one adult from the country’s 147 million rural households across…