Want to complain about delivery-related problems in government services, or make suggestions about the working of various departments or drafts of proposed laws and policies? On Republic Day, the Maharashtra government will launch a collaborative mobile app and portal called ‘Aaple Sarkar’, which will enable citizens to do this.
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The heads of India’s information technology sector gathered at the Raisina Hills on Wednesday for their first ever pre-Budget meet with Finance Minister (FM) Arun Jaitley. Infosyschief executive Vishal Sikka; Wipro Chief Financial Officer Suresh Senapathy; TCS Executive Vice-President Pheroz Vandrewala; HCL Chief Financial Officer Anil Chanana;Nasscom president R Chandrasekhar, along with e-commerce captains Flipkart’s Sachin Bansal; Snapdeal’s Kunal Behl; InMobi’s Naveen Tewari and several…
The common service centres (CSCs) were created in 2007 to take e-governance services to the rural Indian. However, lack of e-governance initiative from States soon forced the service provider, Sahaj e-Village Ltd, to use the facility for online marketing activities and kiosk banking. In a step ahead, the Srei associate company is now gearing-up to…
India has the second-largest online population in the world (behind China and overtaking the United States), with about 243 million people using the Internet in 2014. Yet that leaves more than a billion offline Indians, the largest population of non-Internet users in any country. At current trajectory, by 2018 only one-third of that billion will…
The Minister shared the Digital India vision with the Under Secretary and its broad constituents namely- the digital infrastructure, digital delivery of services and digital empowerment of citizens. He informed the Under Secretary about Idukki- the first district where NOFN has been commissioned. The government is in the process of digitizing the services of the states. We…
Extreme political views and decent humour in the cyber world cannot be prohibited, Centre told the Supreme Court today while making out a case for blocking outrageous and offensive contents hurting religious sentiments. “The extreme political views or contrary views and decent humour cannot be prohibited,” Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta submitted before a…
Fundamentally, MOOCs is the creation of a video lecture by a teacher, where apart from covering the core topics, the instructor enhances his delivery mechanism by directly communicating with industry experts At present, the education system of developed nations is facing a storm created by a new process of delivery of education. It is truly…
Serial entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala is making a foray into online education with an initial investment of Rs 100 crore in a venture that will focus only on higher education. This comes on the back of several investments across internet startups throughUnilazer Ventures. U Education,
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Group of Technology Companies (G Tech), the industry body of IT companies in Kerala, has sought support of the government in setting up an e-governance lab in Thiruvananthapuram. At an interaction with the office bearers of G Tech held at Technopark today, Union communications and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government would focus on promoting product companies to…
The Centre will focus on promoting product companies to ensure sustainable growth of the IT industry, according to Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communications and IT. He offered the Centre’s support for Katalst, proposed fast track business accelerator initiated by the Group of Technology Companies (GTech), representative body of IT companies in Kerala. He…