Healthy Bond Market Crucial to Funding Asia's Infrastructure Needs : Asia needs a robust bond market that can match the financing requirements of huge infrastructure projects in the region and the growing appetite for long-term assets among local pension and insurance companies. Read more

 

बदलते समाज में मोबाइल का बदलता चेहरा : भारत में जब मोबाइल नया नया आया था, तब हर मोबाइल रखने वाला इंसान किसी महामानव से कम नहीं समझा जाता था। वह भी एक अलग ही ज़माना था जब लोग रोमिंग में जाते ही अपना मोबाइल स्विच ऑफ कर देते थे, क्योंकि बिल बहुत ज्यादा आता था। Read more

 

eNGO western India Launch event at Pune on 16th May : After successfully covering 15 Indian States, eNGO Program is here in Pune for Maharashtra on 16th May, 2013. eNGO is an international flagship programme of Digital Empowerment Foundation, for the digital empowerment of grassroots NGOs. The eNGOproramme strives to empower more that 4 million NGOs and self help groups in India, South Asia and African Countries. Login to Facebook to Read more

 

Community Information Resource Centre – Ratnauli & Mansoorpur :
Thanks to 'Community Information Resource Centre' -(CIRC)'s gutsy initiative, the villagers of Ratnauli and Mansoorpur now get the internet connectivity where there is rarely electricity supply... Read more

 

ईट से इंटरनेट युग तक के सफर से ही बदलेगी तस्वीर! : पिछले दिनों 1 मई को हर बार की तरह, इस बार भी देश भर में मजदूर ये नारे लगाते दिखाई दिए कि दुनिया के मजदूरों एक हो जाओ। ये देखकर अपने आप में एक सवाल पैदा होता है कि क्या वाकई ये मजदूर कभी एक हो पाएंगे? क्या वाकई इन्हें कभी अपना हक मिल पाएगा? शायद नहीं। Read more

गांवों की दहलीज पर डिजिटल मीडिया की दस्तक : 13 मार्च 2013, यानि रेड रिक्शा रेवलूशन यात्रा के पांचवे दिन जब मुझसे 23 साल की राखी पालीवाल का परिचय एक उप-सरपंच के तौर पर कराया गया तो मैं हैरान रह गया। जींस औऱ कुर्ते में मोटरसाइकिल की सवारी करते देख राखी को पहली नजर में कोई भी शहरी लड़की समझने की भूल कर बैठेगा। लेकिन, असल में वो राजस्थान के राजसमंद जिले के छोटे से गांव उपली-ओदन की उप-सरपंच और बदलते भारत का उभरता हुआ चेहरा है। Read more

 

Will this be India's first Social Media Election? : The role of the Internet grows every election. Soon its uniqueness will no longer be unique. It will play an even bigger role in an election than it currently does. There is going to be a national election that is going to be about the Internet the way that 1984 was about TV for the first time with Congress and TDP debate. That hasn’t happened yet. Best guess would be 2014, but could be 2019. The spending will tip, and the campaigning methods will change. Read more

 

Right to Internet: Bringing Information to the Citizens : The best way to characterise human rights is to identify the outcomes that we are trying to ensure. These include critical freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of access to information - and those are not necessarily bound to any particular technology at any particular time.Citizens must always check that they aren't getting incomplete or biased data. Read more

 

Demystifying the Myth of a Digital Antagonism : The end of the Cold War has had a dual impact on international relations. From an economic and political point of view, the international system can be said to be multipolar, rather than unipolar. The system that replaced it included new forms of communication and information sharing that defied traditional understandings of geographical boundaries and power relationships. And as governments around the world have begun to understand the disruptive power of this new paradigm, many are attempting to assert control over the global internet. Read more

A golden time for social techno-preneurs in India – Dr. Madanmohan Rao: There are more entrepreneurs in India today than at any other time in history, and many are focusing not just on technology and business domains but also social and political empowerment. "The shift from innovation to actualisation is becoming more and more important, not only for big corporate sector companies but for small traders, tiny manufacturers (including lone home-based workers), street vendors and farm labour. Indian civil society can play a key role in making India a garden of many blooms," according to SEWA founder Ela Bhatt.Read more

 

Indian local content has global relevance – Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck: INDIA has become a hotbed of innovation in e-content. Few other regions around the world show similar prosperity in the agile production of new formats and new applications. All around the world rich people can buy fancy content with fantastic multimedia and full of the finest video in the slickest layout. But is this the only way the promise of the information society becoming fulfilled? In 2003, the United Nation’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) defined goals for the achievement of a true knowledge society. One of WSIS’ core objectives for 2013 was to bridge the digital divide, separating rich and poor countries in terms of access to telecommunication and digital networks. Read more

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