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
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
Undoing of IT labs in schools
Task is clearly cut out for HRD ministry and IT department: set target and have all 1.5 million schools connected via Internet and provide 7.7 million teachers 3G-enabled tablets
Govt schemes must reach people
There is a big gap between government capacity enablement and digital empowerment of masses
Taking minorities on board
Innovations in empowerment of minorities have both political and governance gains
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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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…