Digital India: Nokia and IIT Madras to boost broadband connectivity in rural India Rashi Varshney Feb 10, 2016 Under the 3-year partnership, Nokia will fund and provide technological expertise for research at IIT-M’s Center of Excellence for…
From a Start-up: WiFi on the move, with an app to find the network and log in by itself Express News Service Feb 5, 2016 The free public WiFi hotspots for Bengaluru in the WiFire database have been crowd-sourced and verified by a community of users of…
eGovWatch: Arun Jaitley launches Finance ministry’s official YouTube channel Rashi Varshney Feb 5, 2016 The initiative will help in disseminating information and activities easily to outside world through videos.The Channel will…
eGovWatch: Labour Min to partner with Uber, Quikr for its career portal Rashi Varshney Feb 4, 2016 The agreements with Monster, Quikr, TechMahindra would offer jobs opportunities to NCS registered users. The partnership with…
Balloons and white spaces: The next step in connectivity Express News Service Feb 3, 2016 Take a closer look at Google’s Project Loon and Microsoft’s White Spaces Project that aim to provide internet access to rural…
eGovWatch: NTCA may start drone monitoring of tiger reserves in 6 months Rashi Varshney Feb 3, 2016 Before deployment, a team will map out the risk zones for poaching and conflict. Each drone will need a team of three biologists…
The promise and potential of free Wi-Fi: Rajgarh District shows the way Mohd Ujaley Jan 31, 2016 When the Internet is offered as a utility and free of charge, the results can be extraordinary. Rajgarh District in Madhya Pradesh…
An Ideal framework for rapid roll out of e-gov projects Mohd Ujaley Jan 29, 2016 After more than a decade and a half of intense efforts to electronically enable the government and service delivery, it is time to…
eGovWatch: NDMC area to get Rs 500 cr funding for Smart City initiative Rashi Varshney Jan 29, 2016 One major initiative under the area-based projects will be transformation of electric poles into smart poles with LEDs having…
eGovWatch: Odisha to lay fibre optics to gram panchayat level Rashi Varshney Jan 29, 2016 The Odisha government will spread fibre optics down to the level of gram panchayats, which will work as Information Super Highway…