16 March, 2021: New Delhi The demand of power in India is enormous and is growing steadily. The vast Indian power market, today offers one of the highest growth opportunities for private developers.Growth of Power Sector infrastructure in India since its Independence has been noteworthy making India the third largest producer of electricity in Asia. […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau 33 years ago, on November 2, 1988, much of the Internet – still very small at the time – crashed. The cause was an immature experiment, turned Frankenstein monster, instigated by a graduate student at Cornell named Robert Morris. The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 is considered the […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau In the age of innovation , the green theme is throwing up a broad and bewildering array of new companies ; many promising clean-energy start-ups are hitting the market with products and services that could radically alter how we think of, and consume, power. Billions of $s of Venture and government support […]
The ICTpost report titled, Digital Inclusion in Rural India estimates that by December 2021, there will be 35 percent Internet users in rural India. There were 29.83 rural internet subscribers per 100 population in the country till March 2020. An active internet user is one who has accessed internet at least once in the last […]
By Rahul Konapur, Nachiket Gudi, Oommen John Rahul Konapur, Young India Fellow, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana. Nachiket Gudi, Consultant, The George Institute for Global Health, India Oommen John, Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, India Countries across the globe have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Over […]
ICTpost Social Media Bureau In our world, social media is ubiquitous. We turn to facebook, twitter, and other social media outlets in our work life, at home, and when we’re looking for entertainment.But we have reports on a new role for social media helping to search for genes that play a role in Parkinson’s disease […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau The power utility industry in India has taken keen interest in delivering new efficiencies in business processes, customer relationships and partnerships. Adoption of technology in power sector has enabled power companies, through optimisation of resources, to help boost productivity in every sphere of business. Today, comprehensive set of software, technologies, and services […]
ICTpost News Network A study from the University of Victoria is suggesting that our atmosphere is far more susceptible to a runaway greenhouse effect than previously assumed. The phenomenon occurs when a planet absorbs more solar energy than it can give off in return. That causes surface water to evaporate, fill the atmosphere with steam, […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau No country has succeeded in fully deploying an electronic health record on a national basis. However, Australia and Canada have achieved substantial progress. Experiences from these healthcare systems, their EHR initiatives and their responses to obstacles and challenges offer constructive guidelines for decision makers. Many complex factors, including national health care […]
By Carlos Afonso, NUPEF Civil society organisations, social movements and NGOs are active in internet governance processes, many of them involved in these processes since the inception of WSIS nearly ten years ago, several of them collaborated with me in drafting the following statement. We believe that the access of gatekeepers in the open global […]
