-The Hindu The Agriculture Ministry signed agreements on Tuesday with Reliance’s Jio Platforms, ITC, Cisco, NCDEX e-Markets and Ninjacart to develop agritech solutions using its National Farmers Database which includes information of 5.5 crore farmers. Microsoft, Amazon and Patanjali are among the companies that signed agreements for similar pilot projects earlier this year. This is part of an effort to modernise the agriculture sector by infusing new technologies so that farmers can...
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Explosive report reveals caste discrimination in Silicon Valley, 30 Dalit engineers call out Indian bosses -Ankita Chakravarti
-IndiaToday.in * 30 Dalit women call out caste-based discrimination at Silicon Valley companies. * A new report says caste biases are common among Indian Engineers working in tech companies. * Many Dalit engineers say they face discrimination from fellow Indian engineers. A few weeks ago it came to light that caste-based discrimination was fairly common in the Silicon Valley companies, so common and so pervasive that it led to the California Department of...
More »University Online Classes during COVID-19 -- Exclusionary and Insufficient -Santosh Verma and Tripti Kumari
-Vikalp.ind.in The spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns in India since the last week of March 2020 have put not just people’s health concerns at the forefront, but most of the economic and social sector activities are at halt. Amidst the virus spread and subsequent lockdowns, schools, colleges, universities (educational institutions) are closed without completing the academic calendar year. To deliberate on teaching and learning processes and research activities in...
More »India to have 348 million internet users by 2017: Cisco
-PTI NEW DELHI: India has the fastest internet traffic growth globally and is expected to have 348 million users by 2017, a study by networking giant Cisco said. According to Cisco's Visuals Networking Index (VNI) forecast (2012-17), internet traffic in India will reach 2.5 exabytes per month in 2017, up from 393 petabytes per month in 2012. One exabyte equals 1 million terabytes. "In India, there will be 348 million internet users in...
More »Budget 2012 reinforces UIDAI’s existence-Harsimran Julka
Budget 2012 has further validated the existence of the Unique Identification Authority of India, whose identity was under question barely six months ago, by giving it more money and responsibilities to shape the government's technological interventions. The government has allocated the UIDAI Rs 1,758 crore from the Budget in 2012-13, a year-on-year increase of 47%, primarily to increase enrolments of Indians for unique IDs to 600 million, from 200 million. A...
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