‘Digital India’ is arguably the most ambitious initiative of the Modi government. There are hurdles on the way, but there are also opportunities. How exactly will ‘Digital India’ roll out? Read here in the first part of an explanatory piece. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India program in Delhi with much fanfare, supplemented…
Creating consumer engagement across social platforms has become the norm for brands to keep the consumers at the heart of every business decision. Motorola Mobility is one such brand that has initiated quite a few campaigns to enhance its consumer engagement across social platforms – be it the ‘Hero without a cape’ campaign for Father’s…
In the first week of April, Terry Gou, the founder of Foxconn Technology Group, had visitors from India. A delegation led by Ram Sewak Sharma, India’s IT and electronics secretary, had called on the 64-year-old self-made electronics tycoon to pitch India as a manufacturing destination. Only in February, Foxconn had shuttered its factory that made Nokia…
Indian-Americans in California have begun preparations for a grand reception similar to last year’s Madison Square Garden event for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who would be the only second Indian premier to visit the state with a trip planned in September to Silicon Valley. Representatives of Indian-American organisations held their first full-fledged preparatory meeting in…
The idea of a Digital India draws initial scepticism. India has nearly a billion people without internet access, while 37% of all adult Indians are illiterate. Despite the mobile boom, poor network infrastructure means there is no significant difference between 2G and 3G speeds. A realistic digital India would be one with a robust digital…
Indian metals billionaire Anil Agarwal is seeing happy days once again for a business that was almost sinking. Breathing new life into his Sterlite Technologies Ltd, a maker of telecommunications cables, is a plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the Internet to a billion rural Indians. The initiative will lead to a 20%…
With the increase in adoption of cloud-based applications and solutions and expected surge in demand from the government segment, enterprise software company Oracle is now mulling data centres in India. This would help the company to host the applications and various other cloud-based solutions within the country, given the sensitivity of nature of government business.…
Imagine being asked to submit your birth certificate to your employer by the end of the day. Most people would typically have to rummage through piles of files at home to locate it, making it a harrowing task. The government has now come up with a Digital Locker that allows you to store such important…
Taking forward one of his marquee projects, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will inaugurate the Digital India week on Wednesday. The event will be attended by some of the top corporate leaders of the country including Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani, Cyrus Mistry, chairman of Tata Sons, Wipro’s Azim Premji and Anil Agarwal of the Vedanta group among…
There are around 5 billion connected devices in the world, which are expected to grow to 26 billion by 2020 as internet of things (IoT) gains traction, says an estimate by technology major Ericsson. The growth would be led by growing number of smart devices run on digital platforms with sensors and radio frequency identities.…