Towards A Digital Growth Story: Shikha Sharma In India’s BQ: India is going through a digital transformation and rapidly evolving into a digital behemoth. Being a digitally native country, it is best placed to maximise the benefits from this transformational change and charter a path of inclusive growth. The emergence of India Stack on the…
Internet shutdowns make India’s cashless economy ineffective: Internet Society: NEW DELHI: US-headquartered Internet Society has said Internet lockdowns are counterproductive for a country like India which is pushing for a less-cash economy. This year till end of June, 29 incidents of states blocking Internet services were reported in the country, according to the Software Freedom Law Centre, which has…
Cyber security: India’s growing economy, digital push put India at greater cyber attack risk, says Kaspersky Lab: India’s growing economy and digital push have caught the attention of hackers and an increasing wave of cyber attacks could soon badly impact the country, experts from Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab have warned. India and other…
Digital India must protect itself with well-crafted cloud security strategy: Since its launch in 2015, the Digital India programme has been steadily gathering momentum. The ambitious undertaking aims to connect the entire country, regardless of location or demographics. Read More
Digital India for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development: Indian government has been facilitating this trend with a number of schemes and retro-measures. To weed out black money and corruption from public life, Government has been leveraging digital transaction ecosystem. By December 2017 all government agencies would adopt digital way of transacting to ensure inclusive growth.…
WhatsApp explores UPI for digital payments in India: BENGALURU/DELHI: Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp is exploring the unified payments interface (UPI) among other payment modes to launch its payment solution in India. The development comes about a month after WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton had told ET’s sister publication The Times of India that the Facebook-owned…
India ranks 2nd in ransomware attacks: Here’s how to stay guarded: Last week Mumbai-based freelance designer Vaibhav Agrawal found something rather strange on his computer. A file, the only one in that folder, somehow had a different name. And when he tried to run it, an error message popped up. He discovered that this happened…
Google India, IT Ministry launch initiatives for Narendra Modi’s ‘New India’: NEW DELHI: In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a ‘New India’, Google India and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) have announced a set of initiatives aimed at empowering citizens and creating abundant opportunities for all. Read More
Cyber Security: Insurance is critical in a digitised world: TECHNOLOGY plays a very critical role in the world of business and for long has been leveraged as an asset, making businesses increasingly dependent on it. Today, with the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes in India, transactions over the internet are playing…
Bridging digital divide is top priority of govt: P.P. Chaudhary: There is a need for bridging the digital divide between the urban and rural areas, said minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology P.P. Chaudhary. He was speaking at the valedictory session of the 20th National conference on e-governance. He said the Union government…