A smartphone in the hands of every Indian, high-speed and affordable internet in rural areas, all services available to citizens electronically; if the government’s ambitious INR 1 lakh crore Digital India programme bears fruit, this could well be the India of the future. The core idea of Digital India, as envisioned by the government, is…
The Centre is all set to launch an array of people-centric digital services under its ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme, a top official said here today. These services include digital lockers, cloud sharing, electronic signature, WiFi hot spots and e-textbook project among others. The details about upcoming services under ‘Digital India’ were shared by Secretary in…
Kiran, a Brussels-based entrepreneur, has been looking for ways to expand his business dreams across Europe. Keen to launch a digital magazine and a multi-city accelerator programme for start-ups, he found it difficult to do with an Indian citizenship as it involved too much paperwork and few doors opened. When he heard about Estonia’s E-residency…
The popular hawkers on Indian streets would be roped in by an NRI-owned non-profit private organization for an online network of merchant banking system to market a digital currency rivalling Bitcoin. Canada-based Trestor Foundation’s founder Kunal Dixit said such small businesses, which forms part of the two billion people without banking facilities worldwide, will form…
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the future belongs to digital media due to its reach. He asked government officials dealing with information dissemination to package data and facts according to contemporary trends and media`s requirements. Inaugurating a workshop here on `Streamlining government communication`, the minister said the present environment offered a tremendous opportunity to…
President Barack Obama’s just concluded historic visit to India has laid the foundation for a relationship of hope and promise between India and the US. Among other areas, i believe this relationship has immense potential in the field of ICT and digital connectivity. Already 60% of India’s IT exports, worth $50 billion, cater to the…
The Centre is all set to launch an array of people-centric digital services under its ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme, a top official said here today. These services include digital lockers, cloud sharing, electronic signature, WiFi hot spots and e-textbook project among others. The details about upcoming services under ‘Digital India’ were shared by Secretary in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s one of the most ambitious dreams is to establish 100 Smart Cities across India. To realise his dream, the state governments and other stakeholders have started taking baby steps. They have chalked out the criteria for the selection and ranking of cities hoping to build ‘a new Chicago every year’ in…
Kerala is all set for a giant leap in e-Governance. Following in the footsteps of states like Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and Karnataka, the state will form a Virtual IT cadre to conceptualise, implement and manage e-Governance projects. The idea is to build a team through internal selection from skilled and qualified employees within departments and to…
As many as 90 services of various government departments will soon be available with a single click of a mouse across 10 districts of west Uttar Pradesh. Officials said so far only 26 services were available through state service delivery gateway, including issuance of birth and death certificates, property tax returns, handicap certificates and others.…