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| Digital Content for Development, was the name of the international conclave that was organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation, late last year on the occasion of Manthan Award 2008. During the three day deliberation, more than 1500 participants from 17 countries participated across 13 categories …More» |
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| Digital Content trends in South Asia |
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| Despite the region having diverse interventions in ICT and digital domain, the focus on digital content, that drives the whole of digital trends, is missing at policy and advocacy levels. However, there are few emerging trends in this domain meeting user standards, expectations and satisfaction …More» |
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| Internet Governance — Challenges and Lacunae |
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| With these words, Mr Hans Armfelt Hansell from the UN Economic Commission in Geneva put forward the biggest challenge in the face of good Internet Governance during the Internet Governance Forum at Hyderabad…More» |
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| Low Cost Sustainability Access |
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| Participants The workshop, which was attended by more than 60 key participants, was presided by Mr. R. Chandrasekhar, Special Secretary, Dept of Information Technology (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India and moderated by Mr. Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi, India …More» |
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| Towards Village Information Entrepreneurship |
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| ICT today allows users to play active roles as information consumers, producers and owners. However, people at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) have not been able to move much beyond the traditional role of passive consumers of information. Many of the efforts to resolve this problem focus on increasing villagers’ access to facilities and on training in ICT use…More» |
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| Governance through better Network Infrastructure: The Trend in Jharkhand |
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| Successful implementation and sustenance of e-Governance programmes for the State will depend on support, guidance and direction from the top staff of various state departments. The need was felt to train officials occupying decision making levels and managerial posts who will be trained as ‘e-Champions’ to be equipped with necessary skills to lead the successful implementation of e-governance projects in the state …More» |
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| Financial Inclusion and Net Banking Solutions- Regulatory issues |
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| In villages, where liquidity is a serious concern and cash is required almost immediately, there is a trade off between low interest loans and faster credit access and it is but obvious that farmers and labour would prefer higher interest loans available immediately to low interest credit that comes with a delay. Similarly, mandating interest rates for savings accounts (at 3.5 per cent now) also comes in the way of allowing viable savings institutions that are unable to offer this for small amounts of money collected in poor neighbourhoods.…More» |
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| Elections on the Net: Let’s Bring Politics to Internet! |
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| If you were a senior citizen, who has participated in many elections over the years, you would not help wonder at the progress that the election process has made over the years in terms of shortening queues, better booth management, safer voting environment, ease of casting vote and above all else introduction and use of high technology in the election process.…More» |
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| Bridging Mountains (through Wireless Clouds) |
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| People interested in our (AirJaldi community network usually want to know why we do this, how we do it, what is it that we exactly do, and, most importantly, so what – what change does it bring to our area and to the rest of the world?…More» |
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| Syncing Security and Sinking Risks with Digital Technology |
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| Digital technology is a way and perhaps the best way for concerned and committed citizens across a country as big as India to connect on matters of national as well as local security. Below is a mail from one such concerned and committed citizen from another state, namely, Andhra Pradesh exhorting us on the need to spread the concept and movement called FOP or Friends of Police across the country in the wake of the terrorist strike in Mumbai (26-29/11):…More» |
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| Internet Governance: Challenges in relation to cyber crime and laws |
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| My concern is mainly with advocacy on openness and maximising access to information and knowledge for (human) development and social justice. So my entry into discussions on cyber crime and cyber laws is filtered through an openness lens. My other main concern is data&Privacy…More» |
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| Is Internet narrowing our view? |
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| Internet has given us the possibility to access to an overwhelming quantity of contents and to choose what we want to see. But does that mean that we are more informed?…More» |
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| Issues on Internet Governance |
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| Internet has been associated to a space of liberty, where citizens from around the world are able to communicate and exchange freely without interferences. The cyberspace is seen as an unregulated and decentralized network that is almost impossible to control. As a consecuence, people around the world take this communication facility for granted …More» |
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| Internet Governance and the developing world |
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| The Internet that is taken for granted by so many needs to continue its evolution around the fundamentals upon which it was founded. …More» |
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