In India, if true development has to be designed and pursued, it requires multi-stakeholder integration of issues and solutions. Kutch is the largest district in India with about two million people spread across 966 villages with 70% literacy. Kutch is also fast industrializing because of which, local communities say, crime and alcoholism have been rising.…
Auto-generated texts provide mothers with information about immunization dates, medicines Gandhinagar: Veenaben Solanki, mother of a one-and-half year-old boy, recalls the first text message she received from the state government when she was pregnant. The message, in Gujarati, suggested that she reach a nearby public health clinic for various antenatal care services. She took up…
An effort to connect villages BBNL should function like an Internet service provider so that everyone at the village level would be able to avail of the connectivity for a payment and demand quality service There is a lot of excitement around how we will be able to reach out to each and everypanchayat (village council)…
In the near future, users will be able to avail of services or information from govt departments by just dialling 166 Mumbai: Getting information from the government could be just a phone call or text message away. In the near future, all that one will have to do is dial 166 to avail of services…
Even on limited Internet bandwidth, Idea Brahma’s VBond Vita allows doctors to access scans and X-rays Bangalore: V.V. Ravindra was spurred into his third entrepreneurial venture by two sets of data bearing lofty ambitions for healthcare. The first was that the government aimed to boost its annual expenditure on healthcare to 2.5% of the gross…
There is a serious lack of awareness about Internet among all the villages of India Forty-one years after the first email was sent, Internet penetration in India is still terribly low. In fact, an industry insider said, “If you ask me truly, regular Internet users in India are not more than 10 million or so.”…
With the proliferation of digital revolution, the 21st century is all set to be dominated by connected and information society How old is India? How youthful is this country and what is in store for the next generation? How youth-focused are our policies? These thoughts emerged in light of the draft National Youth Policy, 2012,…
