mHealth provides access information that assists in reducing health risk factors

mHealth provides access information that assists in reducing health risk factors

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 […]

How Wind can be used to light India and the World

How Wind can be used to light India and the World

ICTpost Energy Bureau Over the next three decades, world energy consumption is projected to increase by 56 percent, driven by growth in the developing world, according to the report International Energy Outlook released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rising prosperity in China and India is a major factor in the outlook for global […]

What learning really meant for teachers and students in post covid

What learning really meant for teachers and students in post covid

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 […]

India, Brazil and the human cost of sidelining science

India, Brazil and the human cost of sidelining science

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 […]

India accounts for 1 in 4 coronavirus deaths in the world

India accounts for 1 in 4 coronavirus deaths in the world

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 […]

ICT initiatives in India to combat COVID-19

ICT initiatives in India to combat COVID-19

By Nirupam Bajpai, John Biberman and Manisha Wadhwa (Centre for Sustainable Development) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has emerged as one of the key players in fighting the COVID-19 situation in India. The unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19 has accelerated the process of digitalization of many services and businesses including healthcare services, education, online delivery […]

Covid-19 impact on electricity

Covid-19 impact on electricity

By International Energy Agency-IEA In light of the extraordinary impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown measures on the energy system, the IEA published the electricity data. This report includes data through the end of 2020. In India, the recovery of electricity demand was confirmed with higher levels than in 2019 starting in early […]

How can we prevent future new variants of the COVID-19 virus?

How can we prevent future new variants of the COVID-19 virus?

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 […]