Digital literacy to cover 6 crore rural citizens in 3 years: CSC: As the Indian Government took the path towards a more tech savvy India, it became one of the biggest adopters of IT. To step a notch ahead of others, many actions were taken in a bid to develop the rural areas as well. To comprehend…
Tata-Trusts & Google-India Merge With Mobikwik To Expand Digital Literacy in India: Ahead of demonetization probe so as to curb black money, several enterprises have joins hand and come forward to push the motto of Digital India hence making the entire nation choose cashless society leading to a cashless economy. In the recent terms, Tata-Trusts…
950 million Indians still dream of ‘Digital India’: India may have the world’s second largest internet user base, but internet connectivity remains out of reach for close to 1 billion of its residents, according to a new report. “Internet penetration is increasing in India, the access to affordable broadband, smart devices and monthly data packages…
Bringing digital India to life: What India has been able to achieve in terms of economic transformation over the past two decades is commendable. Through sweeping economic reforms, initiatives to open up Indian markets to global business and investments in areas like digital technology and Smart Cities, the country has made great progress. Read More
Among the initiatives launched with much fanfare by the NDA government is the one titled “Digital India”, which is slated to use high speed internet as a core utility and provide citizens entitlements, documents and a host of services on the cloud. While digital literacy is crucial for the success of such an initiative, a…
Hoshiyar Singh, 22, is in a class of 14 students being trained in logistics management. Rather ironically, his classroom is a container of the kind usually used to transport goods on large trucks. It arrived in Haryana’s Ambala district just three weeks ago. “When you enter the classroom, you forget that it used to be…
The recent launch of the National Skill Development Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has enthused the Indian information technology (IT) industry as the programme gives the sector a platform to partner the government in various training initiatives on a large scale while also deriving the benefits of a skilled workforce base. The $146-billion IT…
Qualcomm Wireless, the ‘strategic’ CSR arm of chip giant Qualcomm, is planning to extend its digital literacy programme to other parts of India. The chip giant is eyeing education, healthcare and environment as some of the areas in which it plans to make inroads in India as well as other parts of the world. Angela…
Taking the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India forward, Videocon Telecom, on Wednesday took another big initiative and announced 1GB free Data for all its female subscribers coming aboard. Under this initiative, the telco talked about women empowerment and declared 1GB free data that will be extended as 100MB per month for 10 months for…
The students of Govindrao Wanjari College of Engineering and Technology organized a program on Digital India Initiatives under the students’ forum, named ‘ACTIVE-X’ of CSE/IT Department on July 7, 2015 in the graceful presence of chief guest, Principal Dr. S. B. Deshpande and Vice Principal Prof. S.S.Uttarwar. The program was organized to make students aware…