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  • CN: Hong Kong's Leap Towards Smart City Status with Pioneering 3D Digital Mapping Initiative

    Hong Kong embarks on a transformative 3D digital mapping project with Avineon India, reshaping urban planning, disaster management, and sustainability.

    In a significant stride towards transforming Hong Kong into a smart city, the government, in collaboration with Avineon India and other stakeholders, has embarked on a groundbreaking 3D digital mapping project in Kowloon East. This initiative is set to revolutionize urban planning, disaster management, and the overall cityscape, marking a pivotal moment in the city's development trajectory.

  • Common Services Centers across India

    Advances in Information and Communication Technologies have made it possible today to provide a whole range of high-quality and cost-effective services relating to video, voice and data content through a single communication channel using appropriate terminal equipment. This opens up a whole realm of possibilities for provision of e-government, entertainment, education, telemedicine, e-commerce, info-services, etc. ubiquitously.

  • Communication & IT ministry seeks to connect 2.5 lakh panchayats via broadband in India

    India will build a broadband highway connecting 2.5 lakh panchayats (spread over six lakh villages) across the country in the next three years to provide a host of public services, union communications and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced. About 50,000 panchayat will receive broadband connectivity this fiscal, followed by one lakh each over the next two years.

    “Our PM (Narendra Modi) wants Wi-Fi in cities and towns and broadband connectivity in every school across the country,” Prasad said.

  • Computer Society of India to encourage free software

    Promotion of free and open source software (FOSS) will be an area of important attention for the Computer Society of India, as the country could benefit hugely out of it financially and socially, CSI's newly elected President Satish Babu has said.

    "We are looking at how IT and ICT could benefit the whole nation and the society at various levels. Promotion of FOSS is going to be an area of focus in this larger perspective.We believe that the country will benefit cost-wise and also in achieving the larger goal of using IT and ICT as a social tool," Satish Babu said here.

  • Computer Society to vend India's e-gov model

    Computer Society of India (CSI) — will take the country’s e-governance model to emerging economies such as Bangladesh and Nepal and to countries in Latin America and Africa, its president S Mahalingam said.

    “We are working with the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC), of which CSI is a prominent member, to take our e-governance model to some of the emerging countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

  • Confederation of Indian Industry calls for bringing ICT in essential services list

    With the use of Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) in all government and private departments becoming the key to provide efficient and rapid services to the consumers and the society, the Punjab government said it was aggressively encouraging the use of IT in all its departments to deliver the best possible services to our citizens.

    “Through use of ICT, we have been able to bring 1700 ‘Mandis’ of Punjab on one portal, which has made tracking of various transactions, receipts and payments so easy. We transacted business worth Rs 5,000 crore this year and aim to take this figure up to Rs 40,000 crore next year,” said state IT and Food & Civil Supplies minister Adaish Partap Singh Kairon while inaugurating the 2 -day IT event Destination IT@North 2012 here.

  • Connect India ties up with common service centres to grow reach

    The logistics and last-mile delivery start-up seeks to expand its delivery reach to 3,500 locations from 1,500 currently

    Logistics and last-mile delivery start-up Connect India E-commerce Services Pvt. Ltd has tied up with common service centres (CSCs), implemented under the national e-governance plan, to expand its delivery reach to 3,500 locations from 1,500, a top executive said on Friday.

    Connect India is a delivery firm which doesn’t employ delivery boys. It commissions neighbourhood grocery stores, medicine shops, cyber cafes and such outlets in villages and urban areas and delivers the parcels at these outlets. The owners of these outlets then deliver the parcels to customers.

  • Connect rural India: Pitroda

    Connect rural India to the rest of India in terms of telephone connectivity, urged Sam Pitroda, technology maverick and chairman of National Knowledge Commission (NKC).

    He was delivering the keynote address through a video conferencing from Chicago during the seminar, ‘Comtel 2008: Breaking barriers, bridging the divide’ organized by Confederation of Indian Industry in Bangalore on Wednesday.

    Pitroda stated that telephone density is predominantly in the urban region, a phenomenon that should change.

  • Connecting rural India, the co-op way-II

    Recently, the Reliance group had been in negotiations with co-operative departmental stores to leverage their strengths in its new mega retail venture. The competitive strengths of the cooperative networks are being increasingly recognised.

    But more importantly, the principles of equity along with economic growth are embodied in the basic co-operative structures, and hence the co-operative way is the natural way for rural development, and for reducing disparities.

  • Connecting the dots for a Digital India

    This is an opportune moment to pause and assess India’s rapid growth story in the light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiatives like Digital India and to explore the achievements and challenges that face us.

    The Government is observing this Independence Day as ‘Sankalp Parva’, or the Day of Resolve. It has asked the people of India to dedicate themselves to social causes and to share their ideas for creating a new India. This is an opportune moment to pause and assess India’s rapid growth story in the light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiatives like Digital India and to explore the achievements and challenges that face us.

  • Consortium plans computer kiosks for rural India

    A consortium of high-tech firms, banks and government officials are gearing up to create rural business centers across Karnataka, backers said they will announce on Thursday.

    Officials of Wyse Technology of San Jose, California said their company is teaming up with Comat Technologies Ltd., a Bangalore computer consultantcy that is helping digitize Indian land records as part of a government rural development push.

  • Counting the billions: India starts to empower its people

    A massive scheme to give every citizen a unique identification number will create the world's largest biometric database.

    Shambhu Sharma had arrived with nothing that could prove who he was. He had no passport, no ration book, no voter identity card or anything similar. Four years ago, he said, he was pick-pocketed and everything was taken. As India goes about trying to provide a unique identity number to each of its citizens, it is people like Mr Sharma who provide officials with some of the most testing challenges. The government's scheme accepts 17 separate forms of photo identification and 32 as proof of address, but sometimes there are individuals such as Mr Sharma who genuinely have nothing.

  • Courts must adopt technology faster

    Covid-19 and attendant social distancing give the judiciary an opportunity to move on this for enhanced efficiency

    After the Kerala and Bombay High Courts’ successful use of a video-conferencing app to live-stream proceedings, courts in India, including the lower courts, need to roll this out on a war footing. The Covid-19 outbreak and the concomitant social distancing requirements make this an imperative. On March 30, Justices AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Shaji P Chaly of the Kerala HC took up nearly 30 urgent matters from their homes via the video conferencing app, Zoom. Advocates too participated in the proceedings from their residences/offices, while the law officers of the state and the Centre were also logged in. On April 9, Justice Gautum S Patel of the Bombay High Court heard nine listed cases and one urgent matter from his home, in an open-for-all public video conference through Zoom, with nearly 500 participants, including lawyers, court staff, journalists, etc. While the Kerala High Court put up a protocol (centred on the Zoom app) on March 24, the Supreme Court released guidelines for court functioning through video-conferencing on April 6, despite having agreed to live-streaming of court proceedings in July 2018.

  • Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants

    Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.

    In September, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number.

  • CSC e-Governance India restarts Aadhaar registration work

    CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd, a special purpose vehicle under Meity, on Friday restarted Aadhaar registration and other related works which it plans to expand across the country next week.

    CSC SPV has signed an agreement with Aadhaar custodian, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), to roll out Aadhaar enrolment, make corrections and changes in the profile of the unique ID holders within its premises.

  • CSC e-Governance to take MSME Ministry schemes to rural India

    There are over 3.65 lakh CSCs located across India which provide government services in rural area.

    The MSME Ministry and e-governance services delivery arm CSC SPV have signed an agreement to promote schemes run by the ministry in rural areas.

    "Only CSC has potential to create grassroot entrepreneurs. Our CSCs are itself small enterprises. Like other government programmes and schemes, we will help MSME Ministry in taking their programmes across India, particularly in rural areas," CSC SPV CEO Dinesh Tyagi said in a statement.

  • Cyber Law in India

    Cyber law is an important aspect of any legal system. But why is it so important? Cyber law is important because it regulates the conduct of the society in the widest possible manner. Think about the issues arising in cyberspace and the difficulty in managing the same. It is a very difficult task to manage issues pertaining to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as it requires both good legislative support as well as technical manpower to handle the same.

    The Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) is the present cyber law of India. With the passage of time a need was felt to keep it updated and relevant. The Parliament passed the Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2008 (IT Bill, 2008) to amend the IT Act, 2000. However the same attracted severe criticism from many cyber law experts including Mr. Praveen Dalal.

  • Cyber Security Is Needed In India

    Cyber security in India is not in a good shape. India is on the verge of a technology revolution and the driving force behind the same is the acceptance and adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its benefits. This technology revolution may, however, fail to bring the desired and much needed result if we do not adopt a sound and country oriented e-governance policy. A sound e-governance policy presupposes the existence of a sound and secure e-governance base as well. The security and safety of various ICT platforms and projects in India must be considered on a priority basis before any e-governance base is made fully functional. This presupposes the adoption and use of security measures more particularly empowering judiciary and law enforcement manpower with the knowledge and use of cyber forensics and digital evidencing, says India’s leading techno-legal expert Praveen Dalal.

  • Data alliance formed to promote global smart city standards

    Fiware Foundation and the India Urban Data Exchange want to encourage standard-based development of solutions to exchange data among multiple organisations in different application domains.

    Open standards non-profit Fiware Foundation is collaborating with the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) to form the International Data Exchange Alliance (Idea).

  • Data gathering on all Indians seen as key to alleviating poverty

    Could a semi-Orwellian program to collect biometric data for 1.3 billion Indians become a key tool to pulling people out of extreme poverty and integrating them into the global economy? The world’s largest democracy is betting that it will, and that it could offer important benefits in poorer countries around the world.

    In this case, Big Brother has a name. It is Nandan Nilekani, Indian technology entrepreneur and now chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India — an agency collecting fingerprints and iris scans of all Indians and assigning them a unique identification number in a massive database in the cloud.

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