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 […]
With the world’s population expected to grow by 30 per cent to nine billion by 2050, the demands on agriculture will continue to grow. The UN sees a critical role for business to play in offering practical solutions to meet the challenges of food security. The United Nations white paper on Sustainable Agriculture Business Principles-SABP […]
Apps in the health space carry “considerable privacy risks for users,”according to a study released by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Fierce Mobile Healthcare reports. They evaluated 20 of the top paid health and fitness apps and 23 of the most popular no-cost wellness apps in Google Play and Apple’s App Store. The researchers examined the apps […]
By Mr. M. K. Yadava It was in the year 2005 that on the floor of the Assembly, in the budget session, late Shri Tarun Gogoi, then Chief Minister of Assam announced that every student who would come first in the high school examination would be awarded a computer, and an amount of Rs 25.00 […]
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 […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The Economist, a well known journal in global circulation, once said that Cloud computing is something that will get geeks excited. According to the journal, cloud computing will definitely affect the lives of everyone. Cloud computing and education sounds ambiguous on the face of it. Naturally, it’s because, very few individuals, publishers […]
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 […]
ICTpost Cloud Computing Bureau Natural disasters provide an absolute reminder that medical imaging providers need to have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that accounts for data protection, as well as allowing operations to continue at the highest level allowed by the situation. As far as protecting data, in recent years, more facilities are turning towards […]
Mumbai: October 27, 2015 Public cloud services revenue in India will reach $731 million by the end of 2015, an increase of $176 million over 2014 revenue of $555 million, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2015, public cloud services revenue is driven by high growth rates in key market segments, such as cloud infrastructure as […]
ICTpost Education Bureau One of the many arenas where officials could benefit from big data deployment is higher education. With their large volumes of student information, including enrollment, academic and disciplinary records, universities have the datasets needed to benefit from a targeted analytics project. The primary goal of big data analytics is to help companies […]
