| A Digital Content Policy is the need of the hour |
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| The WSA India International e-Content Summit on '21st Century India through Digital Content' highlighted the need to integrate digital content with mainstream development policy framework. ...More» |
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| Two inspiring transforming stories from www.connectedindians.com |
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My name is Ravi Kumar
Panagaria. After working for 37 years in various capacities, I took Voluntary
Retirement Scheme (VRS) and moved to my home town in Jaipur.
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My
name is Joseph Thomas. I was born in Thrissur, (a small town in Kerala), in a
family that was financially weak. Since we lived within our financial limits, we
were not in any debt, but life was tough. My father had a shop in the fish
market in Thrissur.
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| Case Study: VoiKiosk, New Delhi and Hyderabad, India |
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Created in the IBM Research laboratories, Voikiosk is a voice-driven application available on the telecom network and based on World Wide Telecom Web technology. It allows the creation and host of village portals on the telephone network by aggregating a set of Voisites comparable to websites by which users can navigate using vocal commands. Through this service, village communities can directly access and post relevant information about their daily lives on a vocal server through their telephones.
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| Case Study: SMSOne, Pune, Maharashtra, India |
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| SMSOne establishes Short Message Service [SMS]-based local media by reaching out to communities through their mobiles, allowing them to receive useful information about their daily lives on issues such as health, government services and political information like elections, community events or education. This service enables deprived young people and dropouts from school to self-employ themselves by becoming the community mediators, sending targeted SMS to different groups within their community. These young people are able to get earnings and the system is financed essentially through local businesses advertising and by charging few paise per message. ...More» |
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| Case Study: CellBazaar, Bangladesh |
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| Cellbazaar is a service that allows buyers and sellers to meet in an electronic marketplace through their mobile phones and computers in Bangladesh. In this e-bay-like platform, sellers post items and buyers view them and retrieve the contact information in order to finalize the transaction. Users can use this service to buy and sell any agricultural product such as rice, wheat and chicken; large-scale goods such as cars, TVs, fridges and apartments and even services such as tutoring and repairing. Cellbazaar is currently running only for GrameenPhone subscribers (20.99 Million ) in four platforms: SMS, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Voice and WEB, allowing users to choose the most convenient. ...More» |
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| The Fourth Screen: India’s New Might in the 21st Century and Digital Content |
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Explosive Growth of Mobile Phone Market forms India's ICT
landscape
India's mobile-phone market is
growing so fast that Indian wireless carriers added approximately 15 million new
subscribers in January 09 alone, a new high mark for mobile-phone service growth
in the world's largest democracy....More» |
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| Local e-Content Triumphs At The World Summit Award 2009 |
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| Australia, Austria, Canada and New Zealand will walk the
stage at the World Summit Award Gala on September 4, 2009 and collect the
winning trophies for the world's best e-Contents. These four countries emerged
as clear leaders in the global contest held in the framework of the United
Nations and its follow-on activities to the World Summit on Information Society....More» |
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