India needs to address the challenges of agriculture through ICT

ICTpost Governance Bureau Agriculture has been a way of life and continues to be the single most important livelihood of the masses. Agricultural policy focus in India across decades has been on self-sufficiency and self-reliance in foodgrains production. The share of agriculture in real GDP has fallen given its lower growth rate relative to industry […]

Broadband: A future direction in Indian healthcare

By ICTpost eGovernance Bureau As health care moves into the digital age, high-speed access to the Internet will become increasingly important for both health care providers and patients. The broadband effort goes hand-in-hand with the Indian Government?s push for health reform and expanded use of health IT. It’s always the last mile that’s the most […]

IT Enabled Applications For Transparency in Indian Railways

ICTpost News Network New Delhi: June 4, 2017 Railways have introduced several IT enabled applications to bring transparency on the sidelines of Digital India initiative. The details and benefits accruing to passengers are as under: – 1. Computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) This system helps in computerised booking of reserved accommodation on trains in a […]

The e-Governance services promised in rural India is still in their infancy

ICTpost Governance Bureau When the focus on e-Governance started in the late nineties in India, the Internet connectivity was abysmally poor. In rural India, there was practically no such connectivity. Therefore a significant amount of e-Governance focus was on connectivity and especially on setting up rural Internet kiosks, a shared access center, where the rural […]

Digital revolution in India opportunity for US firms

PTI ?Boston (US) ? ? Last Updated: February 7, 2016 ? Asserting that India is sitting on the cusp of a digital revolution, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has exhorted senior executives of leading American IT firms to take advantage of the ‘Digital India’ initiative and tap the growth opportunities in the country. “India is […]

China domain “.cn” becomes world’s largest

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — China’s country code domain “.cn” is now the world’s most commonly used. It had 16.36 million users by the end of last year, topping Germany’s “.de,” according to data released on Friday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which manages the domain. The .cn domain is also world […]

Soil Health Card : A tool for Agri revolution

By Nirendra Dev Deteriorating soil health has been a cause of concern and that has been leading to sub optimal utilization of farming resources. Imbalanced use of fertilisers, low addition of organic matter and non-replacement of depleted micro and secondary nutrients over the years, has resulted in nutrient deficiencies and decrease in soil fertility in […]

Digital technologies are the backbone for RTI

ICTpost Governance Bureau As natural resources and readily available, easily transformable energy were the raw materials out of which the Industrial Revolution was forged, so Information and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are the raw materials out of which the Information Revolution is being forged. And just as the Industrial Revolution was transformative of all […]

With the emergence of Internet of Things, energy harvesting will be a critical component for electrification

Mumbai: November 1, 2015? In response to growing demands from customers, partners and consumers, many organizations are moving beyond corporate social responsibility as a philanthropic activity, according to Gartner, Inc. They are integrating green- and sustainability-related initiatives into their core business operations. ?Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment, allowing organizations […]