India has called for transparency and accountability in internet security surveillance and for striking balance between human rights and national security. The global community needs “to create frameworks so that internet surveillance practices motivated by security concerns are conducted within a truly transparent and accountable framework”, Santosh Jha, external affairs ministry director general, told the…
Is Alok ‘Sansari’ Nath’s “Jail the bitch” a the clarion call for the next phase of women’s movement in this country? Are women becoming tired, slowly but surely, of being abused into silence in the cyber world? When 27-year-old Aishwarya Subramaniam expressed an opinion on the internet, a faceless troll responded: he wanted to kick…
Russia’s parliament gave its final approval on Friday to a law that would require Internet search engines to remove users’ personal information from their results. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its third reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the “right to be forgotten”, under which search engines must…
In a country still struggling to deal with widespread violence against women, an Indian judge has touched off a firestorm by suggesting that a rape victim and her attacker heal their rift in the hope of a happy ending. When Madras High Court Judge P. Devadass recently let a rapist out of jail on bail…
We are all aware about the emphasis being laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on National e-governance plan. Accordingly, the much ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme is scheduled to be launched by the PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday, July 1, in New Delhi at 4 PM. Having said this, top industrialists and businessmen will be sharing…
Congress led UDF government In Kerala will launch a slew of e-Governance initiatives which includes e-KYC for Aadhaar Project, Citizen Portal for e-Office Project, and e-Learning Portal as part Digital India programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1. State Minister for Industries and IT P K Kunhalikutty would launch the programmes at…
The Narendra Modi government’s decision to create digital lockers for citizens by mandatorily using Aadhaar numbers is challenged in the Supreme Court. In the petition, one Sudhir Yadav has prayed before the apex court for exemplary punishment to the concerned officers who has flouted the Supreme Court directions for not making Aadhaar number mandatory for…
A digitally connected India will bring “tremendous power” in the hands of citizens by connecting them to the rest of the world, Ratan Tata said today, lauding the government’s ‘Digital India’ programme. “I’m delighted that the Prime Minister has decided to give so much preference and priority to the fact that India will be a…
Describing technology as a means to discover, learn, evolve and implement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that technology empowers the less empowered and said that it combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. “Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that brings a change in the lives of those on…
MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s dream of establishing virtual class in every government school and broadband connectivity in every panchayat as part of digital MP is surely a major uphill task when marginalized communities in the state still don’t have access to digital technology like mobiles and internet. Technology is still an urban phenomenon…