India, African countries vow better ICT ties
India, African countries vow better ICT ties

  To further consolidate the relationship between India and the African countries, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in collaboration with Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC) on Monday organized a two-day conference and exhibition — Indo-Africa ICT Summit 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was aimed at building synergy […]

DIT renamed DEITY in a function presided by Kapil Sibal
DIT renamed DEITY in a function presided by Kapil Sibal

Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal has presided over the function to rename Department of Information Technology (DIT) as the Department of Electronics and IT (DEITY). The renaming has been done to reflect the increasing focus of the government on the electronics sector. Yesterday, an official statement had said that the Cabinet Secretariat has amended […]

Speech to SMS technology to be developed by IIIT
Speech to SMS technology to be developed by IIIT

Hyderabad based International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) will develop a mobile technology that would accept speech as input and convert it into language and text, which can be sent as an SMS. Rajeev Sangal, Director of IIIT, has stated that the project, which has been funded by the Ministry of Information Technology, will be […]

State Data Centres: The Critical Infrastructure
State Data Centres: The Critical Infrastructure

“SDC being a critical infrastructure requiring uptime of the highest order, selection of right  technology, monitoring, operation/management and conformance to the security and data   privacy will be major issues to be addressed,” says S P Singh, Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.” The State Data Centres (SDC) have been […]

Empowering Masses through ICT
Empowering Masses through ICT

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Goal of community knowledge enterprises is to take information at the right time to the right place and to the right person in right context

Free speech zone
Free speech zone

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Community Radio India 2007 was introduced as a new track in the country

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