Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) including internet, mobile based communications are increasingly becoming pervasive and integral to day‐t‐day functioning of our lives‐ whether personal or official.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to build a new class of powerful communication satellites that packs more capacity and new technologies, its Chairman, Dr K.
After losing two communication satellites last year, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) looks forward to the launch of its communication satellite, GSAT-8, at 2.08 a.m. (IST) on May 21.
The intensity of solar storms is expected to peak in 2013 and may devastate critical infrastructure like satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment, a top scientist has warned.
Kathryn Sullivan, assistant secretary of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said countries should prepare for
Strengthening Rural Livelihoods provides a useful and balanced review of the infl uence that mobile phones and the Internet can have on supporting the livelihoods of rural people, and particularly farmers in Asia.
This paper explores the role of ICTs in empowering Indian rural women, through a review of ICT initiatives in India. The paper concludes that, while most of the ICT initiatives are disseminating new information and knowledge useful for rural women, many are not able to make use of it, due to lack of access to complementary sources of support and services.
MUMBAI: A project on the use of geoinformatics in the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Maharashtra by the Tribal Research and Training Institute (TRTI), Pune has been given the National e-Governance award, 2010-11 (Silver) in Aurangabad on Thursday.
Even though Maharashtra has a poor track record of granting forest rights, the award recognises the exemplary re-use of Information
The UP government clarified today that it was not on collision course with the Centre over implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS). Instead it has thrashed out a new strategy to benefit 10 lakh families of the most deprived sections by giving them employment of 100 days on a annual basis.
