Broadband: A future direction in Indian healthcare

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 […]

IT Enabled Applications For Transparency in Indian Railways

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 […]

The e-Governance services promised in rural India is still in their infancy

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 […]

Digital revolution in India opportunity for US firms

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 […]

Government announces first batch of 20 smart cities

Government announces first batch of 20 smart cities

New Delhi: Jan 29, 2016 The Government announced the 20 winners of the Smart City Challenge competition for financing during this financial year. Announcing the cities here today, Minister of Urban Development ?M.Venkaiah Naidu said that the winners were from 11 States and the Union Territory of Delhi and the selection was totally objective and […]

Digital economy to be worth over $100 trillion by 2025

PTI Jan 25, 2016:?Davos The combined value of digital transformation — for society and the industry — could be greater than $100 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a new research by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The research, which is part of the Forum’s Digital Transformation of Industries (DTI) project, focuses on […]

China domain “.cn” becomes world’s largest

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — China’s country code domain “.cn” is now the world’s most commonly used. It had 16.36 million users by the end of last year, topping Germany’s “.de,” according to data released on Friday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which manages the domain. The .cn domain is also world […]

Soil Health Card : A tool for Agri revolution

By Nirendra Dev Deteriorating soil health has been a cause of concern and that has been leading to sub optimal utilization of farming resources. Imbalanced use of fertilisers, low addition of organic matter and non-replacement of depleted micro and secondary nutrients over the years, has resulted in nutrient deficiencies and decrease in soil fertility in […]

‘Women, small farmers should be brought under financial inclusion’

Chennai, Dec 29: A deposit scheme for the girl child, linking of Aadhaar card to each individual credit account, and development of solutions based on mobile banking technology are some of the recommendations of an RBI panel to increase financial inclusion. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the report of the Committee on Medium-term […]