| A Brief Profile of D-Content Columnists (Nov-Dec 2008) |
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Osama Manzar
Editor - D-Content, Founder & Director - Digital Empowerment Foundation
Amir Ullah Khan,
Director, India Development Foundation
Ganesh Natrajan,
Global CEO - Zensar and Chairman - NASSCOM
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Sanjay Jaju (IAS),
Managing Director, ICAP, Andhra Pradesh
Nishant Jacob
eco-confluence, www.eco-confluence.blogspot.com
Professor Ranjit Nair,
Director of the Centre for Philosophy & Foundations of Science, New Delhi
Madanmohan Rao
Editor - The Asia-Pacific Internet Handbook
Sanjeev Chopra,
Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal
Shubhendu Parth
Editor - http://www.igovernment.in, Blue Slate Media
M M Pant,
Former Pro Chancellor, IGNOU
Joe Madiath
Founder & CEO - Gram Vikas
B V Selvaraj, (IAS),
Administrator of Union Territory of Lakshadweep
Prof. Anil Gupta, IIMA
Padamshree & Vice Chairperson of National Innovation Foundation
Sam Pitroda
Chairman - Knowledge Commission
Prateep V Philip, (IPS)
IGP Social Justice and Human Rights, Tamil Nadu
Rajen Varada
Resource person - ICTD Community, UN Solution Exchange
Manas Chakrabarti
Consultant - Instructional Design and Education
Syed S Kazi |
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| D-CONTENT: Not just digital |
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| The tag line of this magazine, "digital content for development," raises a few interesting questions. Why digital? Whose content? What kind of development? My guess is that digital content has little to do with GDP growth, so it's unlikely that the word "development" is being used in that sense. ...More» |
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| From Technological Alienation to Aspirations |
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| The ICT revolution envisages a global revolution by
bridging the glaring digital divide across nations. Sadly, the disparities are
alarming....More» |
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| DIGITAL DELIVERY of Wisdom |
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| For the body's sustenance, complex food substances are broken down into simple building blocks and energy sources. Similarly, when complex knowledge is broken down to its irreducible minimum, it is a simple digital code or in Alpha language,"Yes" and " No." ...More» |
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| Governance Knowledge Centre A Digital Repository |
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| The Governance Knowledge Center (GKC) encompasses web based Digital Repository of best governance practices in India as well as practices in India ...More» |
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| eGov @ Lakshadweep |
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| When one talks about Lakshadweep, what immediately comes to mind is a beautiful place, blessed by nature. However, if given a chance to work there, few would be willing. ...More» |
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| Potential impact of ICTs on rural & urban disparities in India |
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| There is an increasingly widening gap between urban and rural areas in India, with 70% of India's poor living in rural areas. ...More» |
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| Engines of the Mind |
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| As we make the transition to the Knowledge Economy, the driver of development moves away from the earliest stages of large armies of manual laborers to the industrial times with physical power of steam, electricity and oil, and now to ...More» |
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| IT applications in Agriculture Co-ops: the Indian experience |
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| Earlier this month, I was pleasantly surprised to receive an invitation from the International Co-op Alliance (Regional Office for Asia and Pacific) to address a Training workshop for the senior managers of Agricultural Marketing and Supply Co-operatives at Beijing on 24-25 January organised ...More» |
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| Wireless Communication Key During Disasters |
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| What an awful month May was in Asia! Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the earthquake in Chengdu in China, and terrorist bomb attacks in Jaipur ...More» |
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| Digitopia now? |
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| There has been long-standing lamentation about the plight of Indian science and especially of fundamental research, now echoed more often than before by the venerable elders of the scientific community. Human resource flows from the postcolonial economies to advanced economies is not a new phenomenon. ...More» |
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| A Reusable Bag - Courtesy Social Networking |
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| A new age has dawned. Every instant terabytes of information hurtle effortlessly through cyber space, humanity seems to have reached the next stage of its evolution, climbing to the pinnacle of communication, technology, network ...More» |
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| It’s never too late |
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| When was the last time you had to go to a bank or to a travel agent or to a stock exchange or a post office for getting a transaction done? I think you would be seriously starting to scratch your head to figure this no brainer out. Why only these, there is actually a big list of things that have gone into the virtual mode where our physical presence to get an act done has faded ...More» |
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| Finding Bharat Mahaan |
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| It was International Women's Day and one of India's most enterprising women entrepreneurs was taking us on a whirlwind tour of her ventures in education. The Study Hall in Lucknow is a school like any other on the surface but reflects the quality that the caring Principal and her team could generate in the pedagogy process which uses technology to deliver interesting concepts in Math and Biology. ...More» |
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| Skill development & the IT sector |
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| Much of the change in the world's perception and outlook about India can be attributed to India's performance in the IT and ITES sectors. India is recognised as a powerhouse of talent and skills. The Indian IT sector is expected to reach a size of USD 100 billion by the year 2010, and contribute to 7 per cent of India's GDP and 30 per cent of foreign exchange inflows. IT exports are increasing at a rate of 30 per cent an annum, and at USD 35 billion account for more than 20 per cent of India's total export earnings. The World Bank rates India as the world's leading offshore development centre for IT. ...More» |
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