Month: April 2015

From the Editor

Hundreds of farmers’ suicides in the recent months across the country, including the one committed at a political rally in…

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Digital Dilemma

To make the e-governance plan transformative, Digital India has to be demand-driven. This calls for better understanding of the needs…

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Nearly 65 per cent of our population is below the age of 35 years. Just imagine the energy and potential…

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Making People walk the Digital Highways

Digital India’s real test will be in bridging the digital divide in India. In a way, Prime Minister’s call for…

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Disruptive Technologies Will Bridge Digital Divide

Poor quality and accessibility to education, poor quality of medical care particularly in rural areas, poor skills, low productivity and…

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Creating Global Standards

The transliteration tools are available and its been decided to do this for top 100 government websites and NIC has…

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Let Markets Determine Technology Choices

The debate over technology choices is not new. We have been talking about this for at least 15-20 years. Innovations…

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Policy For Adoption of OSS Industry & Academia, Wake Up

I appreciate that the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has announced the “Policy on Adoption of Open Source…

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Technology Policy Needs To Be Pro-Choice

There is a growing debate over the regulators’ intereference in choice of technology. Any such intereference would stifle growth. The…

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No One Killed Agriculture: Revisited

On average, one farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes in India. The incident increased in the recent months due to…

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