पूरे भारत में इंटरनेट इस्तेमाल करने वालों की संख्या में लगातार इजाफा हो रहा है। अगर इंटरनेट एंड मोबाइल एसोसिएशन ऑफ इंडिया (आईएएमएआई) और आईएमआरबी की रिपोर्ट मानें तो भारत में पिछले साल तक इंटरनेट इस्तेमाल करने वालों की संख्या 15 करोड़ पहुंच गई है। इसमें ग्रामीण भारत की बहुत बड़ी भूमिका है, जहां इंटरनेट…
वैसे तो अकसर मैं ‘समाज में सबसे नीचे’ फ्रेज का इस्तेमाल दुनिया के उन तबकों के लिये करता रहा हूं, जो 2 डॉलर प्रति दिन से भी कम पर गुजारा करते हैं। लेकिन, मध्य प्रदेश का एक छोटा सा कस्बा, जहां हर घर से हथकरघा चलने की आवाज सुनाई देती है। जहां एक ऐसी बेशकीमती…
12 नवम्बर, दीवाली की आहट लिए वो जगमगाती शाम, जब पूरा देश इस रोशनी के पर्व को मनाने की तैयारी कर रहा था, मुझे अजमेर जिला के आराइं पंचायत भवन से एक फोन आया। उस फोन पर किसी ने कहा- क्या मैं आपसे स्काइप पर बात कर सकता हूं? ये मेरे लिए किसी हैरत से…
Osama Manzar, member of screening committee of Community Radio Licensing in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, & DEF’s Founder & Director shared his views how community radio stations can be empowered with digital media tools, at the Session, entitled as ‘Community Radio 2.0’ during the 3rd National Community Radio Sammelan held on 9-11th February…
WSA-mobile wraps up successful edition of world’s top mobile content event in Abu Dhabi. Best app developers honoured at Grand Gala evening. A Sri Lankan m-learning game for medical students, a Brazilian app for deaf language communication and a Lebanese Augmented Reality app for panorama photography emerged among the best of the best in the…
Given the recent events in Delhi and the fact that many of us have been harassed on the roads in practically every city in India, Manthan Award Winner, Saloni Malhotra, Founder of Desi Crew has launched the website, Safecity (http://www.safecity.in/) where women can come and map where and how they are getting harassed. The idea…
In today’s context a person is labeled as computer illiterate if one is not equipped with computer knowledge. Therefore computer literacy especially IT knowledge is very important in the lives of this generation. Intel Easy Steps ,the basic computer programme is going with full bloom in Tura Internet and Services Centre (TISC), Tura,West Garo Hills…
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…
It is an exciting time we are living in. The last decade was the decade of telecom penetration in India. Across all walks of life once can see significant increase in productivity and gains in efficiency especially in the less privileged strata of the society. Today, the world of Internet has thrown open unprecedented opportunities for…
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.India stands out particularly with the digital content production of social inclusion and for closing the content gap. All around the world rich people can buy fancy content…