Greenpeace India on Thursday invited its supporters from around the world to sign an open letter to UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urging him to support free speech in India. “I am asking for thousands of people around the world to join me in standing up for Greenpeace India and speaking up for freedom,” Samit…
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has moved the Supreme Court challenging certain provisions in the IPC relating to hate speech and seeking a declaration that they are unconstitutional as they violated freedom of speech and expression. A vacation of bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and U.U. Lalit directed the matter to be listed before another bench…
Intel and the department of science and technology on Wednesday announced a partnership to develop solutions for driving technology adoption in India. They called for entries to Innovate for Digital India challenge. The programme will give access to at least 20 teams a grant of Rs 2 lakh per team. Intel has also roped in…
Google is one of the fastest yet affordable broadband service providers in the U.S. ever since its launch. The West has too many great Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to choose from but we Indians don’t have very good ISP options, sadly. So we were all very excited when Google Fiber was launched with 1 Gbps,…
Intel in India and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have called for entries for the Intel & DST- “Innovate for Digital India Challenge”, aimed at fostering a culture of innovation, create solutions that can address local needs and build an empowered ecosystem for pervasive technology adoption in the country. The challenge will be…
The Indian Penal Code offers would-be censors a wide range of potential offences, many of which do not require malevolent intention on the part of the communicator. If you disagree with something that can be said to promote “enmity,” jeopardise “national integration,” “maliciously” insult religion, or foster “enmity between groups,” it is not difficult to…
Gujarat Government has initiated a process of establishing a new authority called Directorate of Information & Communication Technology(ICT) & E-Governance shortly. This new authority will be responsible to cater the state government’s need of information and communication technology and E-Governance. Sources close to the development informed that the state government do not have any technical…
Despite the strides made in internet governance in India over the past few months — with the Supreme Court striking down the egregious Section 66A of the information technology act and the apparent concession by both government and regulator that the principle of net neutrality must be preserved for an open and democratic internet —…
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…