The beauty of the sudden emergence of community radios in India is that they are designed to be for and by the community There are no school dropouts in the Gop block of Puri district in Orissa and it has nothing do to with the efforts of the government. For several years, nobody applied for…
India’s literacy rate has increased six times since the end of the British rule—from 12% to 74% in 2011. Yet, India has the world’s largest population of illiterates and, at the current rate of progress, it will take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy. Global literacy experts say 70% of Indians are functionally…
Our nominees are less about mind-boggling technology and more about the beneficent use of basic information tools such as landline or mobile phones, SMS, community radio, LCD projectors, television, local language websites and so on. Technology is as good as what it does. That is the basic principle on which we started our journey at…
The situation of Internet connectivity in India is like our roads. It is not about how much Internet is available in India, but the quality of its bandwidth Despite good roads in Indian metros, we take no less than half an hour to reach a distance of 5-10km. Certainly, the reason is traffic congestion, red…
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…
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…
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…
