India needs to step up its efforts to create a national fibre optic network. The success of ‘Digital India’ depends on this India’s dash towards a digital future is stumbling on the lack of infrastructure. Although the country has the world’s third highest number of internet users, the quality of access is abysmal. According to…
The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) was recognized by Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) India for using innovative technological methods to ensure patient safety. The award was conferred to the state drug regulatory agency for developing its revolutionary self-licencing software Xtended Licensing and Laboratory Note (XLN) and using it effectively to adopt good…
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki has appealed the Centre to introduce the Satellite model for boosting communications and digital connectivity in Arunachal Pradesh and other hill states of the North Eastern Region. While speaking at the Workshop with States on Bharatnet – the National Fibre Optics Network (NFON) organized by Department of Telecommunications under Union Ministry…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Indian government is preparing to launch its ‘Digital India’ initiative on a large scale, which will also include selling merchandise, hackathons and games. Launch of Digital India, an initiative to take technology to the villages and block-levels, will be spread over a week across the country. No dates have been fixed…
The Modi government, which completed one year at the Centre, is preparing for a big-ticket launch of Digital India, taking technology to the villages and block levels, through merchandise, hackathons and games spread over a week-long initiative across the country. The National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), has…
iSafe, the safety feature of the Thiruvananthapuram City Police mobile app, has won the award for ‘best use of mobile technology’ at the Elets Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015, Goa. The award was conferred in the governance category at a ceremony co-hosted by Elets Technomedia and the Information Technology Department, Government of Goa. Mridula Sinha, Governor…
Looking for a platform to report your grievances to the government? Here’s a portal that will allow you to file grievances instantly. www.meekosam.ap.gov.in, launched by Chief Minister Sri N. Chandrababu Naidu today, will be a platform where you can report about local problems, give suggestions and post related photographs/documents. The portal will record your grievance…
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has launched a web portal that will enable people of the state to register their grievances, give suggestions and post photographs and documents pertaining to their complaints.
Speaking on the occasion, he urged state government officials to prepare an action plan for e-governance by June.
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The government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile apps to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development, an official said. “A large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to…
The introduction of simple mobile services designed to help small scale farmers could boost farm gate incomes rise by Rs. 56,000 crore by 2020, according to a report released on Tuesday by telecom giant Vodafone. Based on research commissioned by Accenture Strategy and supported by the Vodafone Foundation, the ‘Connected Farming in India’ report found…