New Delhi: August 3, 2023 e-Government efforts to disseminate information, deliver services, complaints and grievances are now spreading the use of mobile and wireless technologies and creating a new direction: mobile government (m-government). m-Government is a subset of e-Government, which helps public information and government services available anytime anywhere to citizens and officials. The public […]
By Dhirendra Pratap Singh With the consensus that has emerged in the country on the need to adopt e-Governance for the convenience of citizens as well as for many other reasons like access, speed, efficiency and so on, the time has now come to start the process of formulating an e-Governance law. Some of the […]
Citizens and stakeholders are demanding higher levels of public safety and service from government and municipally owned organizations New Delhi: January 5, 2023 Cities can create significant opportunities by harnessing the power of existing data through smart and strategic initiatives. Here are several ways cities can leverage existing data to generate opportunities and enhance urban […]
New Delhi: August 30, 2021 Over one third of India’s rural population lacked electricity, as did 6% of the urban population. Of those who did have access to electricity in India, the supply is intermittent and unreliable. India currently suffers from a major shortage of electricity generation capacity, even though it is the world’s fourth […]
ICTpost mHealth Bureau In spite of the advancements in medical technologies and a general increase in income levels, healthcare continues to pose challenges of affordability, complexity and access across the world. In developed markets, per capita healthcare expenditures have risen faster than both income levels and inflation rates over the past decade due to rising […]
New Delhi: 5 July, 2021 The presence of the Internet in students’ lives outside of school, and especially on mobile devices, is allowing for more online and blended learning models in classrooms. That trend is supported by an increasing tolerance and even excitement among teachers for mobile devices as learning tools. As the cost of […]
By Professor Sebastien Chastin (Sebastien Chastin is a Professor of Health Behavior Dynamics in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University) A new study has found that you are 50% more likely to have higher antibodies after a vaccine, […]
Nature Governments that ignore or delay acting on scientific advice are missing out on a crucial opportunity to control the pandemic. Last week, Brazil’s total death toll from COVID-19 passed 400,000. In India, the pandemic is taking around 3,500 lives every day and has prompted a global response, with offers of oxygen, ventilators, intensive-care beds […]
New Delhi: May 1, 2021 Reuters India’s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on […]
28th April, 2021: New Delhi Current measures to reduce transmission – including frequent hand washing, wearing a mask, physical distancing, good ventilation and avoiding crowded places or closed settings – continue to work against new variants by reducing the amount of viral transmission and therefore also reducing opportunities for the virus to mutate. Scaling up […]
