Yearly Archives: 2012

Gaps and promises in govt’s e-agenda

I have not gone as deep into finding how much of the total outlay in the 12th Five-Year Plan each ministry and department has proposed as how they are going to use ICT (information and communications technology) for efficiency and the larger good of the masses and good governance. But I got a chance to…

पड़ोसियों को जोड़ता सोशल मीडिया

मैं अपने सफर की शुरुआत एक ट्वीट के साथ करता हूं और अपनी ज्यादातर बैठकों, विचार-विमर्शो और यात्राओं के बारे में ट्विटर पर जरूर लिखता हूं। मेरा हर दौरा फेसबुक पर एक संक्षिप्त सफरनामे और तस्वीरों को अपलोड करने के साथ ही खत्म होता है। महज एक सामान्य ई-मेल के जरिये आप फेसबुक से जुड़…

Connecting India, Pakistan, Afghanistan through social media

I start my travels with a tweet. Most of my meetings, talks and visits are logged on Twitter. Each journey ends with a brief travelogue and photos uploaded on Facebook. There are many tools such as Posterous that can integrate all these activities simply through an email. Easily and swiftly, my message directly reaches to…

Can internet be a human right?

There cannot be a better environment than in today’s India to discuss, advocate and realize key entitlements to its billion-plus people. We already have rights to information and education and the right to food security is expected to follow soon. At a time like this, a desire to step fully into a knowledge society and…

A letter to Kapil Sibal

Dear minister, You are in a unique position which, in some way or the other, is responsible for connecting almost the entire country through the information highway. You are working on how all the 245,500 panchayats could be connected through broadband in the next few years; being the minister for human resources development, you also…