ICTpost Health IT Bureau The current Indian healthcare system is in need of a radical reinvention. Traditional approaches have not brought the rapid change required by aging populations and the rising costs of healthcare, and government efforts too often get bogged down in partisan politics and fail to address systemic issues. Here we are discussing […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have great potential to address some of the challenges faced by both developed and developing countries in providing accessible, costeffective, high-quality health care services. Telemedicine uses ICTs to overcome geographical barriers, and increase access to health care services. This is particularly beneficial for rural and underserved […]
Dr. Shakila Shamsu, Former OSD (NEP), Ministery of Higher Education, Gov. of India Some Facts: South Asia (SA)has one fifths of the world population.Has the largest number of people living below poverty line Economic and social development cannot be achieved without optimizing human resources for which education is the critical factor. Illiteracy is one of […]
Dr. Shakila Shamsu, Former OSD (NEP), Dept. of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Gov. of India Prof. Sudharshan Seneviratne, Former High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Shri Wajahat Habibulla, Former Chief Information Commissioner of India
ICTpost Education Bureau India has one of the largest education systems in the world with a network of more than 1 million schools and 18,000 higher education institutions. More than half of the country’s 1.2 billion population falls in the target market for education and related services.In India, e-learning courses could be made more popular […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Technology is a useful tool to improve the quality and the efficiency of literacy provision. It helps create learning environments ideally suited to the needs and interests of previously unreached populations and offers new learning opportunities. It stimulates learners to be more creative and innovative. Experience with the use of computers and […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The combination of broadband, cheaper laptops and iPad-style tablet computers is putting online teaching services into the mainstream. We can learn a lot with South Korea in this context. The country is one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it […]
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 […]
ICTpost News Network? New Delhi: Feb 4, 2016 BJP veteran Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty and Shripad Yesso Naik, Minister of State for AYUSH came together on Feb 3 for the launch of “State of healthcare Reforms in India”, the well documented experience of the father of India’s eHealth revolution […]
