PTI NEW DELHI: Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalized, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India, according to UNICEF. To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF organized a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. Speaking at the event, Urmila Sarkar, chief of education […]
New Delhi: June 18, 2017 Credit flows to agriculture under Priority Sector Lending-PSL display considerable seasonality not explained by cropping patterns. The Task Force on Credit Related Issues of Farmers, in its report submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, in 2010, observed that while month-wise credit disbursement patterns should have been in […]
By ICTpost eGovernance Bureau As health care moves into the digital age, high-speed access to the Internet will become increasingly important for both health care providers and patients. The broadband effort goes hand-in-hand with the Indian Government?s push for health reform and expanded use of health IT. It’s always the last mile that’s the most […]
ICTpost Cloud Computing Bureau Natural disasters provide an absolute reminder that medical imaging providers need to have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that accounts for data protection, as well as allowing operations to continue at the highest level allowed by the situation. As far as protecting data, in recent years, more facilities are turning towards […]
ICTpost News Network New Delhi: June 4, 2017 Railways have introduced several IT enabled applications to bring transparency on the sidelines of Digital India initiative. The details and benefits accruing to passengers are as under: – 1. Computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) This system helps in computerised booking of reserved accommodation on trains in a […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau When the focus on e-Governance started in the late nineties in India, the Internet connectivity was abysmally poor. In rural India, there was practically no such connectivity. Therefore a significant amount of e-Governance focus was on connectivity and especially on setting up rural Internet kiosks, a shared access center, where the rural […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Private education is big business in India. KPMG pegs the industry at nearly $50 billion and projects it to reach $115 billion by 2018. But growth rates are not uniform across the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. The allure of so-called B-schools outside the top tier is fading as the economy […]
By Gartner New Delhi: Feb 10, 2016 Widespread failures in realizing return on investment (ROI) in digital technologies for customer experience could create a sense of distrust among buyers and decision makers in India about the potential for digital business, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 80 percent of consumer-facing companies will […]
Ganesh Subramanian, Director EZ Vidya Private Ltd Traditional classrooms in schools need to be transformed into ?Thinkrooms? with the student profile changing rapidly and the digital natives well-versed in using the gadgets with ease. Such an effort would help in building a ?Meta Thinking? student community for a strong and vibrant India of the future. […]
PTI ?Boston (US) ? ? Last Updated: February 7, 2016 ? Asserting that India is sitting on the cusp of a digital revolution, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has exhorted senior executives of leading American IT firms to take advantage of the ‘Digital India’ initiative and tap the growth opportunities in the country. “India is […]
