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 […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau ICTpost estimates that mobile communications currently represents about 18% of the global ICT sector impact though this could grow to 25% by 2025 through the continued growth in subscribers. This numbers should also be seen in the context of GDP contribution. About 80% of a mobile operators’ energy is used by the […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau The current Indian healthcare system is in need of a radical reinvention. Traditional approaches have not brought the rapid change required by aging populations and the rising costs of healthcare, and government efforts too often get bogged down in partisan politics and fail to address systemic issues. Here we are discussing […]
New Delhi: April 1, 2021 With social media having gone mainstream across the world, organisations – small and large, are not only looking for aggressive ownership in this new media pie, but also working out unique ways of keeping their constituents informed and engaged across multiple channels that predominantly include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Flickr. […]
ICTpost mHealth Bureau Centuries of ignorance, suppression, gender and caste discrimination have erected strong cultural barriers to information sharing and dissemination. And yet we say that India lives in her villages. However, it is indeed heartening to note that India is among those developing nations where the progress in e-Health has been encouraging, despite the […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have great potential to address some of the challenges faced by both developed and developing countries in providing accessible, costeffective, high-quality health care services. Telemedicine uses ICTs to overcome geographical barriers, and increase access to health care services. This is particularly beneficial for rural and underserved […]
ICTpost Bureau The amount of food wasted and lost around the world is staggering in India. This is food that could be used to feed the India’s growing population as well as those in hunger today. It is also an unnecessary waste of the land, water and energy resources that were used in the production, […]
16 March, 2021: New Delhi Defending networks isn’t a new concept. We’ve known how to implement prevention, detection, and response controls for years. The challenge we face is the lack of will to do what’s required to deal with the increasing threats from nations, terrorists, and others. Relying on the Indian government to protect us […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau In the age of innovation , the green theme is throwing up a broad and bewildering array of new companies ; many promising clean-energy start-ups are hitting the market with products and services that could radically alter how we think of, and consume, power. Billions of $s of Venture and government support […]
The ICTpost report titled, Digital Inclusion in Rural India estimates that by December 2021, there will be 35 percent Internet users in rural India. There were 29.83 rural internet subscribers per 100 population in the country till March 2020. An active internet user is one who has accessed internet at least once in the last […]
