By ICTpost Healthcare Bureau Much of the health care spending in India, and in the rest of the world, is on expensive and ineffective forms of treatment. One third of the household expenditure in India is on medicines. Most poor Indians spend more on minor ailments than on diseases of a serious nature. Hospitals are […]
Dr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi In India there are about 6.33 crore SMEs, out of which only about 45 lakh are so far registered in the Udyami Mitra Portal of the Government. Out of these, about 3.48 crore establishments (59.48%) were found operational in rural areas and nearly 2.37 crore establishments (40.52%) in urban areas. Government […]
New Delhi: March 10, 2019 Global competition demands transforming current education. With the global economic climate getting more competitive, the demand for a skilled workforce is increasing, and new technology tools play an increasing role in learning. In addition, there are? increased requirements for technology and media literacy, effective communication collaboration, critical thinking and problem […]
By Dr Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor, RBI To build credit models for individuals and small credits, the financier and its modelers are ideally required to know not just outstanding credit for the micro borrowers, but possibly also their entire repayment history and their cash flow fluctuations, so as to tailor the terms of credit […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau Mobile phones, can reach those areas where the infrastructure necessary for Internet services or wired phone services is difficult to setup. In the developing countries mobile government applications may become a key method for reaching citizens in far and wide areas and promoting exchange of communications. In such countries with insufficient conventional […]
By Dr. Dinesh K. Tyagi, CEO-CSC SPV CSC has been undertaking telemedicine in a manner that helps the citizens, especially those living in rural areas. In rural areas, healthcare in an effective manner has been a challenge largely due to non-availability of doctors and infrastructure. Compared to other developed countries, the number of doctors and […]
By Gartner Nearly half of today’s platform as a service (PaaS) service offerings are cloud-only, according to Gartner, Inc. Currently, there are more than 360 vendors across 21 market segments, delivering more than 550 PaaS offerings. Forty-eight percent of these offerings are cloud-only. Not a single vendor has a foothold across all 21 segments, and […]
One of the challenges for delivery of products by various FMCG companies and new e-commerce companies in rural India is the logistic issues. Seventy percent of the rural population has not been able to get the advantage of products and services, besides discounts which the e-commerce companies offer. With the existence of more than 5.5 […]
Professor N V Varghese, Director-Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) India has enshrined a provision for the right to education, and as a result, many more children have access to school. But access is not sufficient. The quality of learning is also crucial. Do our school going students learn? Reforms need to be […]
By Dr. Ali Abbasov We all, humanity as a whole, pay great attention to the internet and related issues because the global network has become a real environment in which people live and work. Governments function, companies do business and nations interact without borders. We have to find answers to the questions of how to […]
