The Rs 4.5 lakh crore investment plan for the next five years unveiled by India’s top corporate houses at the Digital India Week event in New Delhi last week must make J&K state get up and market itself to attract a portion of this investment. This investment plan is expected to provide employment to 18…
The techno-savvy youth immersed in the making of utility mobile applications to facilitate quick online service delivery will be the centre of the district-level Digital India Week observance scheduled to commence here on July 6. Entries have been invited from interested candidates who are in the field of building various technological interfaces to facilitate e-governance.…
BSNL Dakshina Kannada Telecom District is involved in connecting all the 349 gram panchayats on optical fibre in the current year, said deputy general manager N Vishweshwara Bhat. He said the work is being taken up under Government of India’s National Optical Fibre Network project. “Approximately 470 kms of fibre and connecting equipments are being…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative aims to bolster the technical infrastructure for e-governance and e-commerce in the country, and also hopes to reach out to 250,000 panchayats, enlarge the scope of citizen delivery services and allow a greater participation of citizens as part of the Centre’s ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ approach. Along with…
In a bid to bridge the digital divide in rural India, India Post is all set to roll out a Rs 1,370-crore mega project in Tamil Nadu, according to which 1.3 lakh postmen in rural areas would be provided with network connected hand-held devices, which would aid them in postal delivery. Addressing a press conference,…
MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s dream of establishing virtual class in every government school and broadband connectivity in every panchayat as part of digital MP is surely a major uphill task when marginalized communities in the state still don’t have access to digital technology like mobiles and internet. Technology is still an urban phenomenon…
The government is expecting investments to the tune of billions of dollars during the Digital India week, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1. “As per estimates are concerned, we expect billions of dollars investment (in Digital India week),” telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters on Saturday, while announcing…
The growing smartphone numbers and Internet access trends (140 million smartphones estimated to grow to 500 million by 2020, 300 million Internet users growing rapidly) indicate that ‘Digital’ has become a significant part of consumer behaviour in India, and the propensity to go digital is increasing day-by-day. E-commerce organisations have leveraged this digital wave quite…
Bharti Enterprises today said that it has acquired a minority stake in OneWeb consortium to provide affordable Internet for rural markets. Bharti Airtel will be a preferred distributor of OneWeb service in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa. As one of the founding members of OneWeb, Bharti will have representation on the board of the…
With an aim to enable affordable broadband for rural and underdeveloped locations in India, the country’s business conglomerate Bharti has acquired a minority stake in OneWeb, which plans to offer communication services using satellites by 2019. “The dream of fully bridging the digital divide is on track to be a reality in 2019,” said Greg…