Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Monday said that the government has approved 21 electronic clusters while underlining that electronic manufacturing is on top of the government’s agenda. “We have given in principle approval to 21 electronic clusters and electronic manufacturing is priority area for us,” Prasad said at the IESA and Nasscom MoU signing occasion.…
Semiconductor chip maker Intel will be focusing on improving the levels of digital literacy and fostering the culture of innovation in India, said a top Intel official. “On the digital literacy front, we have already trained 4 million people and intend to train more. We also want to work towards building the culture of innovation…
GSMA, the world’s largest telecom lobby group, has said that it’s highly imperative for the government to remove constraints and allay industry concerns to pave a way for PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India initiative. “The government’s vision is good and mobile industry is enthusiastic to support the Digital India program while mobile broadband is…
Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will now focus on improving digital literacy levels in India. According to a report in TOI, an Intel official has stated that the company hopes to bring in a culture of innovation in the nation. Debjani Ghosh, vice-president and managing director at Intel, South Asia, said, “On the digital…
There are three things that happened to me over the last two weeks that are entirely responsible for this entry: ONE: I attended Quartz’s The Next Billion conference, an event about the one billion new internet users expected to come online by 2017. At the conference, Mark Surman, an Executive Director at Mozilla gave a…
EFFECTIVE government policy in Thailand could increase mobile and fixed broadband penetration to 133 per cent by 2020, up from 52 per cent in 2013, according to a report by GSMA, an international association of mobile operators and related companies. This growth would lead to a cumulative increase in gross domestic product of US$23 billion…
The company will pay for two people to work toward those goals for a year at two local nonprofits. The fellows will team with the Triangle Literacy Council and the Kramden Institute to provide training and access to computers, possibly through a mobile computing lab. “We care deeply about getting people online, and we have…
Highlighting the importance of skill development in making a success of the National Digital Literacy Mission and Digital India Campaign of the Government of India, the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), a body with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India laid the…
Amdocs has joined hands with NASSCOM Foundation to set up National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) centers in Gurgaon and Pune and train more than 3,000 under-privileged people this year to become digitally literate. Under the NDLM digital literacy program Amdocs India will invest in training infrastructure, trainer’s cost, and other operational expenses. The centers will…
Ever since India’s independence in 1947, the biggest priority for the nation has been its economic growth, education for all and financial inclusion for the vast population of the country. While India has made some noteworthy progress in the past six decades and more, but on the aspect of financial inclusion, progress has not been…