While Internet users have increased, the not-so-healthy reactions from the govt have also risen In the past few years, although India has been ranked among the top three nations by number of Internet users and second only to the US in Facebook users, there has also been an increasing number of not-so-healthy reactions from the…
On 12 November, the eve of Diwali, while most of the country was preparing for the festival of light, I got a call from Arain Panchayat Bhawan, saying they wanted to talk with me on Skype. The people on the other side were mostly a young bunch of people from Arain village in Rajasthan and…
Impact sourcing should be less based on employment generation and more about using naturally existing resources to create impact on the local economy. But what is impact sourcing? Out of 42 million population of Kenya, 25 million carry mobile phones and 12 million of them use it to access the Internet. Kenya is also known…
Newsweek recently announced it will publish its last print edition on 31 December. The weekly magazine attributed its decision to the fact that two out of five Americans read and consume information on their mobile devices. Is that a sign? Not more than 1% of India’s population is truly habituated to depend fully on digital…
MORE than half of the people in the country have one. Whether it’s the latest smartphone or a simple flip phone, more and more people in Nepal are using them to stay connected to family, send text messages to friends, even check the latest updates on their Facebook newsfeeds. Mobile phones today have pushed the…
