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…
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…
भारत ने अंतरिक्ष के क्षेत्र में इतिहास रचते हुए अपने मंगल मिशन को जिस तरह सफलतापूर्वक अंजाम दिया है यकीनन वो भारत के वैज्ञानिक इतिहास की सबसे बड़ी कामयाबी है। इसका सौ फीसदी श्रेय भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान केंद्र (इसरो) के वैज्ञानिकों को जाता है, जिन्होंने अपने कौशल से ये इतिहास रचा है। बुधवार (24 सितंबर 2014)…
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
The prime minister recently announced the exciting Digital India programme (DIP). However, there are three things: one, there is nothing new except that it is repackaged into one brand name; secondly, it should have been called “Digital Bharat” rather than Digital India; thirdly, we at Digital Empowerment Foundation felt elated that two of its three…
नमस्कार, ये रेडियो कश्मीर है और आप शंकराचार्य की पहाड़ी से खबरें सुन रहे हैं। इंदिरा नगर में लोग वहां सुरक्षित जगहों पर पहुंचाए जा चुके हैं… जी हां, यही रेडियो है जो शंकराचार्य पहाड़ी की चोटी से मुसीबत में फंसे लोगों का संपर्क सूत्र बनकर सूचनाएं देता रहा। शंकराचार्य पहाड़ी से पूरा शहर डूबा…
यूं तो रस्म अदायगी के लिए हम हर साल 5 सितंबर को शिक्षक दिवस मनाते हैं और इसी बहाने पूर्व राष्ट्रपति सर्वपल्ली डॉ राधा कृष्णन को भी याद कर लेते हैं। लेकिन, सच पूछें तो आधुनिक दौर में शिक्षा के वास्तविक उद्देश्य से हम कोसों दूर निकल चुके हैं। किसी को अपने व्यवसायिक जीवन…
Internet governance is coming up in a big way and we need to have a multi-stake holder approach for issues pertaining to public policy and critical Internet resources,” he reportedly disclosed. “This is not a bad move, but I doubt and wonder if it will encourage people to buy domain names in Indian languages. Is…
Mark Zuckerberg would be very glad if he visited the sole internet centre in Chandauli, a dusty village in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, about 170 km northeast of Jaipur. A third of the 20-odd kids glued to their laptop screens are visibly excited by the world wide web, and all of them, without exception, are on…
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