Internet is still expensive for disadvantaged people

By Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor at the Internet Society Accessibility is a key issue. Accessibility should be at this stage and as we start discussing today those issues just bear in mind accessibility is — means notice crime nation in terms of access at a very high level and also issues of inclusiveness. It’s quite […]

Disruptive Innovation and Inclusive Growth

By R. Gandhi, Deputy Governor at FIBAC Small Finance Banks are going to be game changers. Let me explain our thought process. First, whom are we targeting to form the Small Finance Banks? The Guidelines for Licensing Small Finance Banks indicated that resident individuals / professionals with 10 years of experience in banking and finance […]

In India, the estimated market for distance learning tools is worth $70 billion

ICTpost Education Bureau The combination of broadband, cheaper laptops and iPad-style tablet computers is putting online teaching services into the mainstream. We can learn a lot with South Korea in this context. The country is one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it […]

Increasing healthcare costs and shift in demographics drive Indian consumers online

Increasing healthcare costs and shift in demographics drive Indian  consumers online

ICTpost Media Action Bureau Indians are turning in increasing numbers to the Internet for information related to their health. Access to information that was previously difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to obtain has helped drive a shift in traditional roles for patients and physicians. Technology has made possible additional avenues for communication that can […]

Telemedicine apps that make Indian health care a breeze

ICTpost Research estimates that the market for mobile healthcare apps will be worth $600 million by 2017, while the market research company Research2Guidance claims 247 million mobile phone users had downloaded a health related app in 2012. A recent article by Bill Yates from iMEdicalApps highlighted the overall Google search traffic since 2007 for specific […]

Online learning is expanding beyond its roots in distance learning

ICTpost Education Bureau What we are seeing in 2016 and 2017 is a transition to an educational system no longer dominated by traditional education and one or two alternative models. Educational technology and new educational courses and programs are interacting to create new language and models for education. Online learning appears to be a classic […]

There is a very little impact of digital programs on marginalized groups in India

ICTpost Governance Bureau Marginalized communities are communities in underserved areas, both urban and rural, that include the following target groups, among others: Women, Persons with Disabilities, Unemployed, Poor, Youth, Elderly, Immigrants and Micro-enterprises. Marginalization can be defined as not belonging to the mainstream culture, and thus lacking the social capital to partake from the benefits […]

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