With three days to go for ‘Good Governance Day’, Department of Electronics and IT has invited ideas to improve existing e-governance programmes as also suggestions for new initiatives. “DeitY is celebrating 25th December as Good Governance Day. Good Governance is foundation of a functional democracy and is implemented largely through e-governance. “You are requested to…
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mandate of ‘Digital India’ will be a game changer for the country and will have a cascading effect on the entire system said Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Chairing the consultative committee meeting attached to his Ministry, he informed the members that about 700,000 kilometer of cable…
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HP, for setting-up cloud enabled classrooms in India. ‘HP Future Classrooms’ is a solution developed to implement creative, sustainable and inclusive models of education using cloud technology to benefit students from underprivileged and economically weak segments of the society. The MoU was…
As the Indian government embarks on its ambitious Digital India plan, critical to this will be addressing demand-side issues and not just creating broadband capacity, said Ulf Pehrsson, global regulatory head of Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson. “The government will need to address issues pertaining to developing adequate content on healthcare, education and e-governance without which the capacities…
Government is considering a review of technical specifications of Aakash 1V tablet, the previous UPA government’s trumpeted low-cost computing device project. It may be noted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2012 as Gujarat Chief Minister had criticised Kapil Sibal on the Aakash project. The first and second versions of the Aakash were shipped by…
Reporters without Borders reports a slight drop in the number of murdered journalists this year, largely due to fewer deaths in countries ‘at peace’ ‘Rarely have reporters been murdered with such a barbaric sense of propaganda, shocking the entire world,’ said Reporters Without Borders in their annual report released on Tuesday. Paris: Attacks on journalists…
2014 saw a rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits, says a report from Hoot’s Free Speech Hub The state of free speech in India remains a cause for concern judging by the rise in recorded attacks on the media and the increasing use of defamation suits, the…
Maharashtra is the only state to follow the E-Governance in Revenue department helping the citizens to have Search of the Title for the Property, which they can find in minutes of time, said the Settlement and Land records Commissioner of Maharashtra Mr. Chandra Kant Dalvi here today. Talking to UNI Mr. Dalvi said that to…
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, said here today that Rs. 18000 crore worth investments proposals have been received till now for the Digital India Programme, of which 4000 crore worth have been approved and more are in the pipeline. Speaking at the session on ‘The role of ICT and…
The Ministry of HRD is presently implementing the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to leverage the potential of ICT, in teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in Higher Education Institutions in any time anywhere mode. Under the Mission, more than 700 courses in various disciplines…