A heap of cash comes to every member of Parliament (MP) every year, under a government scheme to develop constituencies. At the end of the year, the money—which could be used to create valuable digital infrastructure in our remote villages—returns to where it came from, unspent. The consequence: Our villages continue to remain cut off…
OneWeb’s plans to use satellites for digital connectivity and provide affordable internet access to all will have to address a few challenges that have earlier plagued such ventures. OneWeb is a group of firms, including Airbus Group, The Coca-Cola Company, Grupo Salinas, Hughes Network Systems, Intelsat, Qualcomm Incorporated and Virgin Group. Bharti Enterprises has also…
Scaling on the optical fibre network, the nation is all set to march on the digital path this week when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a Rs one lakh crore programme aimed at wiping out the digital divide. The programme, envisaged by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), with coordination with ministry of communications…
An anganwadi worker in rural Karnataka can register her attendance through a service called Mobile One, which a software professional in Bengaluru can also use to pay electricity and water bills or book tickets. This innovation is not by a start-up but by the Karnataka government’s centre for e-governance, which pitches its mobile governance offering,…
Dr Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSC e-Governance services India limited tellsSaima Rashid that both state government and the people need to do their bit in order to have a sustainable development based on technology. Kashmir Life (KL): What is e-Governance? Dinesh Kumar Tyagi (DKT): e-Governance doesn’t involve any supercomputing, it is simply creation of such…
For the overall vision of the Digital India project to be achieved, it is imperative to create the digital infrastructure for every citizen, RS Sharma, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) asserted at the Eighteenth edition of the Express Technology Sabha. The e-governance forum that kicked off on June 18 at the Lalit…
People living in Mira Bhayandar especially students, widows and senior citizens will not have to travel all their way to Thane for procuring important government documents. In a much needed respite for them, the district authorities resumed its SETU sub-office in Bhayandar. Considered to be an ‘electronic bridge’ between the common man and government agencies…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Wipro chairman Azim Premji will be among 400 corporate honchos who will attend the launch of the government’s ambitious ‘Digital India’ initiative on July 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch the logo…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while sharing the roadmap for Digital India, will unveil various e-governance schemes such as Digital Locker, e-education and e-health at the Digital India Week, beginning on July 1. The big-ticket launch of the Rs 1.13 lakh crore Digital India project will witness participation from over 10,000 guests. Tata Group Chairman Cyrus…
“Innovative technologies are changing the face of healthcare in the country by enabling healthcare practitioners to automate operations and provide healthcare services in a cost-effective manner,” says Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in an exclusive interview with Mohd Ujaley Edited Excerpts: What is your view of eHealth in…