Will a US$35 ‘tablet for the poor’ bring computing power to the masses? Not likely The Minister for Communication & Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, announced with much pomp on 5th October, the breakthrough pricing of a tablet computer at US$35 for “millions of India’s schoolchildren” to become digitally connected and benefit from online education. Kapil…
Social entrepreneurship has become a buzzword today. But two broad trends may be changing the way we understand the concept. One is its Western orientation, and the other is corporatization. If you search “social entrepreneurship” on Google, most of the definitions and examples you will get will be from the Western world. Wikipedia quotes Bill…
In India entrepreneurship is a necessity for survival, but for higher scale growth and innovations to instigate entrepreneurship, it is time that we have Plug and Play kind of centres in each metro to start with, and we have enough big corporations to provide such facilities They call themselves “Silicon Valley in a Box”. They…
I am in a situation where I cannot but compare India and the US to bring perspective on how the information economy driven by information communication technology and digital tools will be led by India to make the world a better place. And the onus will be on India and Indians across the globe, and…
