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| Digital Inclusion: Feature |
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We need to pay more attention at the bottom of the pyramid, focusing more on growth of large number of people and not the handful. The telecom czar says that while we are setting up the right kind of infrastructure for the next big jump, it is not about economic liberalisation. It is about creating an inclusive society, providing education, health services, and creating more jobs... more |
UI D can Transform Digital Inclusion: Feature Governance
| |  | | After a lot of discussion and debate, the government has set in motion the UID project.One of the key requirements of UID is to minimise/eliminate duplicate IDs and improve the efficacy of service delivery. A Q&A with Ram Sewak Sharma, Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India more |
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UI D: Step to Include All -The need for creating an identification system that uniquely identifies a person, and ensures instant identity verification is urgent and very important. This would also transform the delivery of social welfare programs by making them more inclusive of communities now cut off from such benefits. more
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Speeding Digital Inclusion -The digital divide is a challenge of both access and the ability to effectively use information and communications technologies. Thus, inclusion can no longer just be seen as having a device and a connection. A report by Team Inclusion more
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Digital Inclusion and Skoch | Skoch Development Foundation was set up about a year and half back to
look at poverty issues. We have had two interventions directly in this
time period. One is we have adopted a little village called Sangram
in Arunachal Pradesh at Indo-China border. This is inhabited by
Nishi tribals. It is a subsistence economy where we are supporting
a school. The second intervention which we have is in Mohand in
Saharanpur where we bring similar educational intervention with the
Ban Gujjars. Ban Gujjars are migratory shepherds, and when they
travel their children can get educated so we are trying to get a
mobile school that travels with them and continue their education. So
essentially the whole idea behind setting up the Skoch Development
Foundation was (a) to create a think tank which gets into policy issues
and (b) also to have a first hand feel of what the felt needs of the
poor are and what is it that we can really do to alleviate some of that. more |
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National Study on Speeding Digital Inclusion |
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n the recently held round table on Speeding Digital Inclusion, held on September 16th, 2009, an in-depth analysis of effective and speedy digital inclusion was discussed aiming the benefits like financial inclusion and social inclusion. Participants pointed out the challenges, opportunities and bottlenecks in implementing such an ambitious project. Speakers pointed out that unless digital inclusion becomes a mechanism for people in rural areas to earn money and to establish livelihoods it will not really happen. Examples shared were of small rural BPOs which have been set up in India, and in fact the rural BPOs experience showed that in terms of costs they were only about 50 percent of the costs of tier 1 and tier 2 locations while their productivity was about 125 percent plus of the productivity in tier 1 and tier 2. Mr R Chandrashekhar, secretary, Ministry of Information Technology pointed out that “India itself has the answers to competition from almost any country in the world in terms of being a competitive destination for IT, IT-enabled services and BPO and in the course of sorting out our own problems and addressing our own developmental issues we will also be opening up more opportunities in the global competition as well.”. more
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Power Panel on Integrated Governance for Large Cities was organized during the 20th Skoch Summit held in Mumbai. Panelists from left to right: Dr M Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; Mr Prakash Rane, Managing Director, ABM Knowledgeware; Mr Niraj Prakash, General Manager-Public Services, SAP; Mr Mubarak Singh, Municipal Commissioner, J&K; Mr Sushil Kumar Sharma, Municipal Commissioner, Dehradun; Mr Pramod Kumar Pandey, Municipal Commissioner, Kanpur; Dr Roshan Sunkaria, Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh; Dr Deepak B Phatak, IIT-B, Mumbai; Mr Sameer Kochhar, Chief Editor & CEO, Skoch more |
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