Supergrids in India: Can we smooth the path to transmission’s future?

Supergrids in India: Can we smooth the path to transmission’s future?

ICTpost Energy Bureau The concept of a “super-grid” capable of moving huge amounts of electricity over long distances is popular with environmentalists and governments keen to promote the integration of more renewables into the power supply, overcome transmission bottlenecks and bring power to remote communities. An electricity super-grid could take green electricity produced in one […]

Prepare for Expansion of eHealth Programs in India

Prepare for Expansion of eHealth Programs in India

Experts in this video are: Dr. S.B.Gogia, Former President of APAMI Dr. Sushil K. Meher, Former President- Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI) Dr. Khalid Moidu, Global Thought Leader in Healthcare Informatics Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari, International eHealth Expert Dr. S. B. Bhattacharyya, Former President (2010 – 2011), IAMI

India’s online education market size is set to grow to $ 60 billion by 2021

India’s online education market size is set to grow to $ 60 billion by 2021

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 […]

Why social entrepreneurs are critical to recovery from COVID-19 crisis

Why social entrepreneurs are critical to recovery from COVID-19 crisis

By François Bonnici, Head-Social Innovation, World Economic Forum Social entrepreneurs solve market and government failures by serving excluded and vulnerable populations, which are most at risk to impacts of COVID-19.Decades of work in the impact sector are at stake during the economic crisis.A new alliance of 40 organizations aims to coordinate response to support social […]

How to improve factor productivity and adoption of competitive solutions

How to improve  factor productivity and adoption of competitive solutions

McKinsey Global Report Asia’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was partly enabled by technological foundations developed long before the crisis. Over the past decade, the region has developed and deepened its technological capabilities and infrastructure rapidly, accounting for a large share of global growth in technology company revenue start-up funding, spending on […]

Signals used to beat Storms

ICTpost News Network The commuters rely on GPS technology to get themselves where they need to go in the shortest amount of time. During massive storms, these GPS signals can be mangled by storm conditions. Now, scientists have figured out how to measure wind speeds based on these disruptions, according to a new study in […]

Using Social Media to Save Energy

ICTpost Energy Bureau Today, people under 25 make up 43 percent of the world’s population in some countries, that number is as high as 70 percent. This amounts to nearly 4 billion young people living on the brink of the greatest technological advances and human progress while also surrounded by intractable public health epidemics, record […]

Mobile government is not a replacement to e-Government but complementary to it

ICTpost Governance Bureau Mobile phones, can reach those areas where the infrastructure necessary for Internet services or wired phone services is difficult to setup. In the developing countries mobile government applications may become a key method for reaching citizens in far and wide areas and promoting exchange of communications. In such countries with insufficient conventional […]