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…
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…
India has scowled at a UN report that cited New Delhi’s crackdown on activist group Greenpeace among challenges to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and dismissed the reference as “misplaced enthusiasm”. The report was presented in May by a special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council. “The report refers to instances of…
India is standing on the cusp of a digital revolution. The government’s Digital India plan is transforming the country into a digitally empowered society, with a growth curve that mirrors that of the US a few years ago, and China more recently. However we have to act fast. More than 1 billion people are still…
China, long accused by the United States of rampant cyber aggression, may be synonymous with hacking exploits these days, but that doesn’t mean every Chinese hacker is out to pilfer and destroy. As Chinese companies grapple with a sharp increase in the number of cyber-attacks, many hackers are finding it increasingly lucrative to go above…
NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat on Monday said the think-tank of the central government will push policies for the indigenous manufacture of electronics and hardware to strengthen India’s cyber security. Saraswat, a former Defence Research and Development Organisation chief, stressed on the creation of indigenous technologies through ‘Make in India’ in electronics and hardware sector…