Month: April 2015
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Apr- 2015 -1 AprilDigital Dilemma
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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1 AprilDigital Dilemma
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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