In Focus: Digital India
The next lap of lndia’s growth will be powered by technology and propelled by citzen-centric governance in multi-stakeholder partnership.
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Digital opportunity can overcome credibility challenge of NGOs
NGOs are expected to be visible, authentic, genuine, transparent, capable of skill and scale and, most importantly, adapting to a new communication medium, which is digital
Story of the new Top Level Domain: .ngo
New top level domain (TLD) .ngo is being launched in the coming year by Public Interest Registry (PIR), owners of the ‘.org’ TLD . It brings all valid non government organizations (NGO) from different places in the world under one unique umbrella. “This online identity will provide a virtual community between donors and non government…
Zuckerberg, Facebook, Internet.org and Indian villages
Facebook is working towards making many of the visions of Mark and objectives of Internet.org into a reality
Digital infrastructure in panchayat villages
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana needs digital backbone and redesigning of MPLAD fund
Governance through citizen participation @ social media
In the last couple of years, various social media initiatives, like using Facebook, have come up where govt agencies have shown proactive interest to engage with citizens
Need for robust information infra
Big plans to serve the people in backward districts are impeded due to lack of a medium to reach them there
Zuckerberg Visit to Chandauli
Zuckerberg was visiting a “digi center” run by a non-profit body called the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), which is meant to be a central point in the village for accessing the internet and other technical services. “The school and college-going youth in particular were very excited to see him,” said Osama Manzar, founder of DEF…
Undoing of IT labs in schools
There is a lot of discussion on the shortage of teachers in our schools. While India is trying to find a way to fill the vacant positions of teachers and perhaps also find out how many of the 7.7 million school teachers actually go to teach, I wanted to share with you the preparedness level…