Editorial: Saving Digital India

When SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son met prime minister Narendra Modi last October, he made it a point to tell him that unless India addressed the problem of acute shortage of spectrum—Indian telcos have an average of 12-13 MHz of spectrum against a global average of 50 MHz—there was very little chance of Digital India succeeding.…

Newgen's Annual Customer Meets 2014 Focus on Enabling Innovation Through Digital Transformation

Newgen Software, a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Communication Management (CCM), and Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions, successfully hosted its Annual Customer Meets in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi recently in the month of December 2014. Mr. Diwakar Nigam, MD & CEO, Newgen Software speaking on the success of the events said, “We are pleased to…

Newgen’s Annual Customer Meets 2014 Focus on Enabling Innovation Through Digital Transformation

Newgen Software, a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Communication Management (CCM), and Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions, successfully hosted its Annual Customer Meets in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi recently in the month of December 2014. Mr. Diwakar Nigam, MD & CEO, Newgen Software speaking on the success of the events said, “We are pleased to…

Centre implementing massive e-gov project for ESIC

The Centre is implementing a Rs 1,900 crore e-governance project to automate transactions vis-a-vis the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said here today. Under the project, named ‘Panchdeep’, a massive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) would be installed across the country. The data concerning the employees like medicines given to them,…

Venkaiah Naidu asks civic bodies to walk the talk on public amenities

Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu on Monday asked municipal administrations to focus on improving urban civic services and fast track the adoption of e-governance in the respective bodies. Speaking at the regional consultative workshop on urban governance here at the Administrative Staff College of India, Naidu said the Centre was considering devolving more powers to municipal bodies to improve decision…

Govt to relocate IT habitat to Kadamba plateau

Goa’s IT habitat project, which didn’t have takers while it was earmarked in tony Dona Paula, will be relocated to 4.5 lakh sq m of government land near the electricity department’s sub-station on Kadamba plateau, within the precincts of Chimbel village. The plateau is being developed for several years now as a residential-cum-commercial area, although…