India’s competitive IT labor inducing cyber criminals

New Delhi: July 15, 2017 As the country’s estimated $150 billion IT services industry is becoming the world’s favoured outsourcing centre, India is emerging as a popular destination for cyber data theft and may witness growing activity of hackers. Data theft is one of the biggest risks posed before the companies in the banking sector. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Provide relief in any form to small farmers as a direct benefit transfer

New Delhi: June 18, 2017 Credit flows to agriculture under Priority Sector Lending-PSL display considerable seasonality not explained by cropping patterns. The Task Force on Credit Related Issues of Farmers, in its report submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, in 2010, observed that while month-wise credit disbursement patterns should have been in […]

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 […]

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

By Gartner New Delhi: Feb 10, 2016 Widespread failures in realizing return on investment (ROI) in digital technologies for customer experience could create a sense of distrust among buyers and decision makers in India about the potential for digital business, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 80 percent of consumer-facing companies will […]

Zika Virus -Spreading Explosively

World Health Organisation The World Health Organization rang a global alarm over the Zika virus, saying that the disease was spreading explosively in the Americas and that as many as four million people could be infected by the end of the year. WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, will convene an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on […]

Digital economy to be worth over $100 trillion by 2025

PTI Jan 25, 2016:?Davos The combined value of digital transformation — for society and the industry — could be greater than $100 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a new research by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The research, which is part of the Forum’s Digital Transformation of Industries (DTI) project, focuses on […]

How sometimes Minimum Government can be Better Governance

By Rajesh Aggarwal, Principal Secretary IT, Govt. of Maharashtra The Central and State Governments are focusing on e-Transactions or electronic transactions. Electronic transactions allow citizens to access citizen services conveniently without having to visit Government offices. Services can be accessed either through the Common Service Centers (CSCs) or from one’s home via internet. The eTaal […]