DIGITAL INDIA IN US

[agamdilawari]

 

[ravinderpalrulez]

Mark Zuckerberg changes his profile picture to support 'Digital India'

NEW YORK: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he is looking forward to having a conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about what connectivity means for India's future at a townhall session. .
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"I changed my profile picture to support Digital India, the Indian government's effort to connect rural communities to the internet and give people access to more services online. Looking forward to discussing this with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Facebook today," Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Facebook..
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PM Narendra Modi also changed his profile picture on the Facebook. .
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"Thanks Mark Zuckerberg for the support. I changed my DP in support of the efforts towards a Digital India," PM Modi wrote in a post on Facebook..
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Readers too can change their DP here..
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PM Modi began his visit to California with meetings with top CEOs including Apple's Chief Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai

 

[Tiger Genie]

One of the reason Microsoft every new product is becoming flop instantly.

Google also recently appointed Indian CEO. I think its downfall is also near.That's why Google created Alphabet and gave the soon to be failed product to Indian.

nonsense. The CEO's of these companies are AMERICANs and only of Indian origin. There outlook is global and their interest in India is to do with the market opportunities and talent opportunities offered by India, just like any other large jurisdiction such as China.

They are as interested in Pakistan as well since that also offers almost all matters of interest as do India and China. Don't be surprised if Nawas Sherieff meets up with these CEOs soon.

 

[agamdilawari]

Look at the likes in just 1 hour

 

[Ankit Kumar 001]

Tricolour everywhere.

Zukerberg changes his profile pic.

This will cause a lot of burning in... :p

 

[scientien]

Dudes why do nepalis having assburns,this inglorious nepalis

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

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[ranjeet]

Live stream

 

[bongbang]

@Doyalbaba @chaanmia
Seems like Narendra Modi taken Sheikh Hasina's idea of Digitalization into next level.

Clear copyright violation @Rain Man

 

[45'22']

@Doyalbaba @chaanmia
Seems like Narendra Modi taken Sheikh Hasina's idea of Digitalization into next level.

Clear copyright violation @Rain Man

I thought Hasina was our agent in BD

 

[Who.Cares]

Look at the likes in just 1 hour

Even I can get thousands of likes in seconds. Heard of auto fake likes and it works 100% percent. Top comments are from Nepal hahaha #BackofIndia

Look at the replies

Anyway, we know what happened to likes of myspace, orkut. Facebook will also have fate like this. Instagram is the new thing for now.

 

[MilSpec]

@Doyalbaba @chaanmia
Seems like Narendra Modi taken Sheikh Hasina's idea of Digitalization into next level.

Clear copyright violation @Rain Man

then thanks for inspiring us, we should work together in the transformation of the region.

 

[Who.Cares]

'Digital India' lags behind in world internet race
By Akhil RanjanBBC Monitoring

• 26 September 2015
  
• From the sectionIndia

Image copyrightGetty Images
Image captionIndia's falling ranking on broadband penetration underlines the challenge for "Digital India"
India appears to be falling behind in the global race for mobile internet and broadband penetration, the latest UN figures show.

India's ranking on broadband penetration dropped to 131 in 2014 - lower by six places since the last year - according to a Unesco report covering 189 countries and titled "The State of Broadband 2015".

On mobile broadband subscriptions, India also slipped significantly as it stood at 155 in 2014 compared to 113 in 2013, far below neighbouring Sri Lanka and Nepal, which were ranked 126 and 115 respectively.

The country has also climbed down by five places to 80 among 133 developing countries, despite some progress in terms of individual use of the internet, the report says.

The findings underline the challenge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces in realising his government's "Digital India" project, which aims to universalise mobile and internet access across the country.

Digital divide
The 2015 report, released just ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit on 26 September, emphasises the concerns of experts over the achievability of the "Digital India" initiative.

The project aims to reduce the "digital divide" by providing high-speed internet connectivity to the farthest corners of the country by 2019. It also speaks of "empowering" over 68% of India's population, living in rural areas.

Analysts have voiced doubts over the viability of these aims, arguing that they cannot be fulfilled without due attention to critical shortcomings in infrastructure.

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Image caption"Digital India" aims to promote e-education in over 250,000 government schools and e-governance in about 250,000 village councils via internet connections
The project envisages a 6,000km-long National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) to connect cities, towns and 150,000 postal offices by December 2016 at an estimated cost of over $18bn.

Osama Manzar, founder-director of the Digital Empowerment Foundation, in an article on the Mint website laments the lack of investment pledges by telecommunication firms towards building the network.

"It is on record that not a single telecom operator or industry house has signed up to partner the NOFN programme, despite the Department of Telecommunications inviting them several times," he says.

Infrastructure deficit
The NOFN project is far behind schedule and is unlikely to be completed on time.

A particular obstacle is posed by the challenges of laying such an underground network in insurgency-affected states like Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Indian-administered Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

A lack of agreement between the central and state governments does not help, and compounding the mix are illiteracy, poverty and a shortage of skilled manpower.

The "Digital India" project aims to promote e-education in over 250,000 government schools and e-governance in about 250,000 village councils via internet connections. However, most schools in villages and towns face a severe shortage of qualified computer trainers.

According to recent government data, 36% of the 884 million people in rural areas are illiterate, and among the 64% who are literate, only 5.4% have completed high school.

And rural electrification continues to be an area of major concern.

But where is the speed?
India is a large market for mobile telephony, but it does not fare well on considerations of internet speed via mobile devices.

A recent Deloitte report said the total number of internet users in the country was 254m in September 2014, and of these, 235m users were accessing the internet through mobile devices.

The research suggests that there are 439,000 mobile network towers nationwide, but only 700 can actually support 3G or 4G data use.

Image copyrightGetty Images
Image captionCapacity and speed remains a major concern in India
Statistics show that despite having the third-largest population of internet users in the world, India stands at 52nd place in terms of internet speed. It has an average speed of 1.5 to 2 mbps, while developed Asian countries like South Korea and Japan enjoy speeds of 14.2 and 11.7 mbps respectively.

The latest UN report, therefore, only underlines the already formidable challenges faced by the "Digital India" project.

 

[dray]

@Doyalbaba @chaanmia
Seems like Narendra Modi taken Sheikh Hasina's idea of Digitalization into next level.

Clear copyright violation @Rain Man

Digitalization in Bangladesh is actually a Rawami League conspiracy to open up another media for cultural invasion of Bangladesh by us.

 

[samlove]

Family values. PM narendramodi takes a moment to meet Zuckerberg's parents



Comment. PM narendramodi writes a message, this time on Facebook's famed real Wall, to be preserved for posterity.