NEW DELHI: Nasscom will be working with the West Bengal Police to set up a coordination committee to prevent cyber crime and data frauds, especially in the business process outsourcing (BPO) space. The initiative will set up a nodal cell that will be supported by cyber forensic labs, and will work to carry out surveillance…
Here is more evidence that Indians overuse and are overdependent on social media: The country has the most number of social media scams. With almost 16% of all cyberattacks through social media happening in India, every sixth of these scams impacted an Indian in 2015. In fact, the country is a top destination as well…
Digital access changes lives in more than one manner—it brings confidence, decision-making ability, gender equality, spirit of entrepreneurship, access to public goods or services, and creates an informed and knowledge-rich society.
Individual Rights and Social Media – Panel Discussion Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Date: 15 March, 2016 Panellists: Aakar Patel – Executive Director, Amnesty International India Chinmayi Arun – Research Director, Centre for Communication Governance (NLUDelhi) Pankaj Pushkar – MLA (Timarpur, Delhi) Rai Mahimapat Ray – Deputy Commissioner, Bokaro district Rohit Prasad…
The government launched the Digital India programme in July last year aiming to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information technology. According to the programme’s official website, the vision is to ‘transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.’ The pharmaceutical sector followed suit with the launch of…
Indian delegation of 23 Chief Information Officers visited Estonia this week, 11 – 15 of April – in order to examine how e-government systems work. During their visit the delegation gathered ideas for the development of Digital India. One of the organizer Mrs Caralyn Khongwar Deshmukh, from National e Governance Division, Govt of India pointed…
The topic of human rights on the Internet has been one of significant interest, right from finding mention in the WSIS Declaration of Principles in 2003, to the UN Human Rights Council’s First Resolution on Internet Free Speech, which declared that the rights available to people offline must also be protected online. These have subsequently…
Since the Edward Snowden disclosures in 2013, which exposed a vast spying apparatus used by intelligence agencies across the globe to collect and collate the calls, text messages and social media content of citizens, privacy has become ingrained in the public consciousness. So, in this unbridled era of smart-technology, what has happened to personal privacy?…
CHENNAI: Indian Railway’s arm Railtel, which provides internet services via its extensive fibre network along with Google announced the launch of free high-speed public Wi-Fi service at nine new railway stations. After the maiden launch at Mumbai Central, users in Pune, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Ranchi, Raipur, Vijayawada, Kacheguda (Hyderabad), Ernakulum Jn (Kochi) and Vishakhapatnam, will be…
Even as India is taking the satisfaction to bring down hacking attempts by Beijing, and secure its cyberspace, after the recent meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia India, and China at Moscow, internet policy experts feel that the communique issued at the end of meeting is against India’s national interest. Sources said that external…