Adopting a fresh stance, the government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it was willing to take a re-look at Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which empowers police to make arrests over social media messages, and to put in necessary safeguards for allaying apprehensions against its misuse. The government assured the court…
Amrita University will host the prestigious 6th IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E) to bring together researchers, visionaries and practitioners in the areas of education and technology on a common platform to discuss the role of technology for making education relevant and bridging the rural-urban divide. The four-day conference, beginning tomorrow, will be…
Maharashtra government will soon launch a portal and a mobile application, ‘Aaple Sarkar’, to ensure participative governance and address public grievances.
“The portal and mobile app will handle citizens’ grievance redressal as well as suggestions/feedback for more participative governance,” according to a statement issued by the Directorate of Information Technology (DIT).
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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has adjudged the Chennai Corporation as the best among all the government departments when it comes to e-governance. The CII presented the award to the civic body during a seminar on Information Technology, conducted as part of the Connect 2014, on Monday. Corporation Commissioner Vikram Kapur received the award.…
Research firm McKinsey has said that the adoption of key technologies across sectors spurred by the Digital India initiative could help boost India’s GDP by $550-billion to $ 1-trillion by 2025. The New York-based company sees an opportunity in digital technologies and smart physical systems, and said that government’s ambitious Digital India initiative would have…
Intel India has announced plans for delivering digital literacy in the country. The company has announced plans for training persons at the panchayat levels of 1,000 villages that are set to receive broadband connectivity under the National Optic Fibre Network. Debjani Ghosh, Vice-President Sales and Marketing Group, and Managing Director Intel South Asia, said this…
Pampakuda in Ernakulam district is going to be the first ‘digital panchayat’ in Kerala next month by building a database of all residents. The digital database includes the personal details of all residents, such as occupation, educational level, bank account number, Aadhaar number, blood group, phone number, the availability of drinking water among other things.…
The government is gearing up for its next big mission, a Rs. 113,000-crore plan that aims to usher in a digital revolution by moving everything online, from education to public services to bureaucracy. Aptly called ‘e-kranti’, it comes under the Narendra Modi government’s ‘Digital India’ initiative and is quite simply the world’s most ambitious broadband project — but…
On a chilly winter morning, Kalapana Verma, a 17-year-old girl from north India’s Uttar Pradesh state starts her journey from a thatched hut in Bheera village. Traversing the paddy fields and muddy village road, she cycles for about 12 kilometers before reaching a computer learning institute in Raebareli, the nearest town. Over the last year…
Facebook on Monday said that it is rolling out upgraded search capabilities for mobile and desktop users who want to find favourite posts from their friends on the huge social network. “You’ve told us the most important thing is being able to find posts you’ve seen before, and now you can,” said Facebook vice president…