The Challenge Reached Over 5 Lakh Children in One Week and Will Continue Till 17th July To reinstate its commitment towards the Government’s Digital India vision during the ‘Digital India Week’, Intel launched the Digital Wellness Online Challenge in collaboration with National e-Governance Division[*] (NeGD) on July 1st, 2015. This online quiz is aimed at sensitizing…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India project that seeks to empower citizens by deploying IT and associated tools received thumbs up from across the country. Towards this initiative, Chief Minister Anandi Patel launched Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s ‘Smart Learning’ project which would teach science and mathematics to 54,000 students of class 6 to 8. However,…
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Under the Ambitious Digital India Project of PM Narendra Modi, Computer Science and Engineering department of City’s RVS College of Engineering organized a one day seminar on ‘Digital India Literacy ’. At the event speakers highlighted the aspects related to Digital India and participants were provided hands-on learning. The main motive of the seminar was…
Investment commitment of USD 75 billion or Rs 4,72,500 crore was received from industry at the launch of Digital India week, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. “On Digital India day (July 1), you will be happy to know that we made a very decisive initiative that investors – global and Indian — must declare…
Many CEOs of IT firms in Tamil Nadu will take part in the ‘Digital India Week’ celebrations to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on Wednesday. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) Chennai director, Sanjay Tyagi said some 300 CEOs in the state had been sent invitations…
Digitisation is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, says Ram Sewak Sharma, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology. His department is the nerve of the ‘Digital India’ programme along with partners both in the public and private sector. In a conversation with BusinessLine, Sharma shared his thoughts on the…
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said the industry needs to walk the “extra mile” to ensure that quality service is delivered to people and that consumers do not face issues like call drops. Speaking at the FICCI CEOs Roundtable, Prasad said telcos need to improve their services. “I have told you always that…
The government launched the Digital India Week on 1st July from the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The two-hour long event saw speeches from Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Communications and Information Technology Minister, Arun Jaitely, the I&B minister, corporate leaders, and the Prime Minister himself. Also, during the event, the PM launched a number of projects…
Srinagar,July 07 (Scoop News)-A high level team of Information Technology (IT) department,Government of India headed by Scientist-G, Senior Director DEITY, Dr. R. Pitchiah today visited National Institute of Electronic and Information Technology (NIELIT), Rangreth andCentral University Campus Indranagar to participate in the concluding function of the Digital India Week, here. The team was accompanied by…