SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) is recasting Indian IT industry

ICTpost Governance Bureau The consumer technology model in India is now penetrating, and beginning to transform, the corporation in a significant way. This new IT architecture, which we call the SMAC stack (for social, mobile, analytics and cloud), is enabling the creation of hyper-intelligent software platforms. Indian companies are investing heavily in Social networks, Mobile […]

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 […]

The role of ICT in Good Urban Governance

ICTpost Governance Bureau As per recent reports, 20% of India’s urban households are denied access to safe drinking water, 58% do not have safe sanitation, and more than 40% of garbage generated is left uncollected in India’s cities for want of proper waste management.?Migration from rural to urban areas poses a major challenge to attaining […]

Open government data supports innovation in public services

ICTpost Governance Bureau Un-spun govt data, mixed with Internet technologies, often yields solutions that are instantly rewarding for societies Forward-thinking governments have been turning to open data as a way of increasing transparency and for adding economic and social value to the information they hold. This is leading to development of new kinds of interaction […]