ICTpost Media Action Aarogyasri covers 80% of the population of Andhra Pradesh offering 942 procedures with end to end cashless delivery of service. e-Office provides a completely paperless, online and transparent electronic office system to handle around 41 departments of this scheme. The Indian government faces a constant challenge in providing affordable and efficient healthcare […]
Anil Swarup, Secretray- Ministry of Coal, Government of India
New Delhi: November 6, 2015 While only 73 per cent literacy has been achieved as per Census 2011, there has been marked improvement in female literacy. Male literacy at 80.9 per cent is still higher than female literacy at 64.6 per cent but the latter has increased by 10.9 percentage points compared to 5.6 percentage […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau Un-spun govt data, mixed with Internet technologies, often yields solutions that are instantly rewarding for societies Forward-thinking governments have been turning to open data as a way of increasing transparency and for adding economic and social value to the information they hold. This is leading to development of new kinds of interaction […]
Dr. Sushil K. Meher, President- Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI)
New Delhi: November 4, 2015 Customer experience, product range, delivery, payment and customer service are the top five things Indian digital commerce players should focus on to grow their business, according to Gartner, Inc. “Digital commerce is at a nascent stage in India, and it accounts for less than 1 percent of total retail sales […]
By Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India I am sure many of you have come across Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Physics, a must-read when we were at IIT. The Nobel prize-winning physicist was one of the giants of the twentieth century. In his autobiography, though, he writes how he found the atmosphere at […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The advancement in ICT has resulted in the emergence of virtual classrooms. Imparting education through virtual classrooms is a new concept that is becoming popular not only in traditional educational institutions, but also in training centers with vocational courses. It has ensured access to learning from qualified staff members, transcending the geographical […]
Mumbai: November 1, 2015? In response to growing demands from customers, partners and consumers, many organizations are moving beyond corporate social responsibility as a philanthropic activity, according to Gartner, Inc. They are integrating green- and sustainability-related initiatives into their core business operations. ?Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment, allowing organizations […]
Mumbai: November 1, 2015 Most Indian insurance companies expect to increase their IT budgets in 2016, and are expected to spend 140.8 billion rupees on IT products and services ? a 9.6 percent increase over 2015, according to Gartner Inc. This forecast includes spending by insurers on internal IT (including personnel), hardware, software, external IT […]
