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Pratap Vikram Singh
was Principal Correspondent with Governance Now
Contributions
“Blockchain allows individuals to monitor use of personal data”
“Key milestones achieved in Assam”
Crime tracking project: Bugged from the beginning
“In the online world, free means paying with your data”
Blockchain and tackle
Dengue death: Instead of taking action against Medanta, Nadda gets the money reimbursed
Adya Case: Supreme Court admits petition against Fortis
Automation will not impact India negatively: NSDC head
Health ministry finalises bill on data privacy
Can we handle our e-waste?
Up next: Artificial intelligence for governance
Heartbreaking stories of backbreaking medical bills
Here’s why TRAI slashed international termination charges
Virtual ID is a good beginning; much more remains to be done
Going after Tribune: Mocking democracy
Crime in Politics: The nexus
Have probe agencies done justice to 2G case?
Investigative agencies to decide the course of action: Govt on 2G verdict
Seven principles for data protection: BN Srikrishna committee
Using mobile power or M-power to empower our citizens: Modi
Modi launches Umang app
Privacy can’t be shield of corrupt, terrorists: Ravi Shankar Prasad
"The only fallback was SMEs, but policies have choked them.”
How Thomson Reuters can help in cracking down on black money
Satya Nadella shares his ‘hit refresh’ moments with Anil Kumble
Drop in revenue is a temporary phase: RS Sharma, chairman, TRAI
A tangled wireless tale
New policies for electronics, IoT, cloud soon
Investment in telecom sector has gone up by 220% in 3 years: Manoj Sinha
4G coverage will become larger than 2G in 12 months: Mukesh Ambani
Need to push India to be global leader in telecom: Top official
Facebook and post-truth
Incumbents` loss is Jio`s gain
Securing official communication
Telecom woes and half-baked measures
Privacy is a fundamental right! Here’s what it means
SC privacy verdict: All but overruled section 377 judgment
Privacy: Govt told to put in place robust regime for data protection
No record to back PM statement on savings due to Aadhaar: Activists
Making the cloud industry-friendly
Delay in compensation wrongly calculated under NREGA: Researchers
Aadhaar database: Not secure anymore?
Demonetisation not meant to change cash use by people: Harvard economist
Online payments, now a phone call away
New telecom policy to be application driven: Manoj Sinha
Security in peril
Aadhaar: On a sticky wicket
Zen and the art of cityscaping
Government sanctions new posts to hire cyber security professionals
A corporation to be set up for Digital India
Here come the job killers!
NITI Aayog rolls out three year action agenda
Digital India: Are we there yet?
Why do we need Aadhaar?
Getting ready for Industrialisation 4.0
Activists demand strong anti-corruption institutions
Aadhaar expands, provides more and more services
“Wi-Fi coverage in rural areas necessary for Digital India success”
Internet, unto the last
Import of PoS machines temporary: PP Chaudhary
Digitisation plays a key role in steel sector: Top official
Aadhaar: To be mandatory, or not to be
Troll charge on information highway
Cyber-attacks are most serious economic, national security threat: E&Y
Organisations don’t report cyber incidents: PMO official
And Truth Shall Have No Dominion
The really cashless economy
No more files: Coal ministry is now paper-and clutter-free
Regulatory framework remains cloudy
Demonetisation will not have a big bang impact: Experts
Electronic & IT to help shape new India: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Give a roadmap to increase market share, Manoj Sinha to BSNL
Reliance Jio: Major telecom firms` chiefs to meet TRAI chairman
Reliance Jio: The coming data revolution
DBT Blues: Add a zero at the end
Time to walk the talk
Betting big on cloud in India
Whose law is it – theirs or ours?
“To implement laws, an accountability system has to be in place”
Citizens Charter: She was denied pension for years
Big Brothers will keep watching you
The potential of forensics
All government services to be online in Maharashtra
Plenty of plans but little achievement so far
Coming soon: electronic health record of every citizen
Using data to improve social welfare schemes
This is how India can increase its municipal revenue
Direct Benefit Transfer: A new regime cometh
“We have made it very clear that Aadhaar is not mandatory”
DBT Chandigarh: An idea whose time hasn’t come
Is DBT a one-stop solution?
Welcome Big Brother. And get ready for post-Aadhaar life
Why Aadhaar is baseless?
Replacing welfare schemes with cash transfers would be a mistake: Jean Dreze
"Aadhaar shouldn`t be linked to food distribution"
Eight things you must know about new Aadhaar legislation
In search of a tech-savvy farmer
Tracking slow and tardy progress of CCTNS and NATGRID
Looking the GIFT horse in the mouth
Facebook has a history of being non-transparent: Vishal Misra
TRAI receives 18.72 lakh responses on net neutrality
Differential pricing is anti-competitive, anti-innovation: Mozilla to TRAI
India’s net neutrality debate is unique and complex
Upscaling city life
Standards crucial for delivering services in a transparent manner
Online GST will curb tax evasion: Rashmi Verma, special secretary, revenue department
Getting India GST ready
How Chikhli village in Gujarat gets new looks under SAGY, awaits more development
U-turn on encryption policy
After DRDO, woman chief for NIC
How Surat police is using video analytics to check crime
Making sense of CCTVs
The startup revolution: Smart solutions for social good
Waking up to a space of possibilities
How ‘eyes in the sky’ helped tribal farmers
We want to ensure 24-hour power supply by 2016: Alok Ranjan, chief secy, UP
Preparing India for Internet of Things
DeitY gets home ministry’s desperate call on national intelligence grid
Banking on technology
Fresh land survey in states is must for planning and use of technology
100 smart cities: A peep into the future
Chief passport officer talks about curbing the role of intermediaries
Smart cities offer over $30 billion business opportunity to ICT industry: Nasscom
Net Neutrality debate: Can internet be neutral?
Mining the benefits of technology
Net Neutrality: Nasscom stands by users, against bias
Let India decide on the future of internet
NeGP: What change in funding implies for the key e-gov initiative
“In Odisha, funding is not a problem for e-governance”
Capacity training programme gets a boost
How internet, cloud telephony helped create an election record
Delhi govt to hold stakeholder consultation for free Wi-Fi
India’s last-mile challenge
Ajmer: Will smart and heritage cities schemes make it any better?
A ‘comprehensive look’ at NOFN strategy and implementation
Myopic Netra: why the new system has failed to deliver
Digital India makes business sense of $200 billion in next five years
Chhattisgarh moves to paperless secretariat
Multi-stakeholder participation key to success of smart cities plan
Interconnectedness, economic geography essential for smart cities
Delhi to grow faster than London, New York
Naya Raipur: Here`s how to make a smart city!
“Focus will be on job creation”
Governance, civic services key to smart cities
Why DeitY wants to narrow down the scope of NIC`s work profile
For smart cities, govt needs Rs 7 lakh cr in 20 years
Poor Aadhaar linkage in 300 districts for 5 DBT schemes
Soon, a national certification agency for electronics and IT
DeitY`s target: 32,000 rural e-kiosks to act as bank agents
Centre to bring policy paper on smart cities
DeitY to move cabinet note on NeGP 2.0
Army set to buy more essentials online, bring in transparency
Rs 50k crore a year: reason Modi backed Aadhaar
“We are revolutionising the way (industry) clearances are given”
UIDAI on a roll as Aadhaar gets Modi government`s nod
UPA`s pet UIDAI set to get Rs 2,000 cr in Modi budget
Analog speed for digital forensics
Natgrid: A good idea stuck in a logjam
"India should play a larger role in Myanmar"
PM`s silence over techie`s death annoys netizens
A DG for three days!
Lack of promotion policy takes toll on scientists
Big Brother is listening
Why India can`t ignore virtual currency Bitcoins for long
"NeGP 2.0 will eliminate unnecessary steps in service delivery"
Technology crucial for innovations and productivity in manufacturing
No party`s got a clear stand, Aadhaar`s fate hangs in balance
Parties give short shrift to privacy
Getting ready for infrastructure on demand
Mobile and highly bankable
Now, more banks are getting involved in financial inclusion
Disarmed by red tape, armed forces struggle with virtual unreality
Soon, Meghraj to make it easy for IT
Government launches vikaspedia for social development
Government grants stage-II clearance to Mahan
Whither Aadhaar after 4 years and Rs 3,500 crore?
Does content matter when politicians blabber?
Putting the E in the change
Delink from LPG subsidy not end of Aadhaar: UIDAI
Model RFPs seen as corrective to PPP in e-governance
Rural development ministry to launch MNREGA dashboard
Governance takes a beating in clan-ridden Arunachal Pradesh
Omission of commission!
Are we making it too tough for electronics sector to survive?
Post-uproar, EC`s Google tie-up plan may go for a toss
"Aakash IV will be a 100% made in India product"
Revised bill, newer controversies: After SC, IB now raises eyebrows on Aadhar
Aadhaar integration saves Rs 1 crore annually in pensions
Chandigarh police will roll out CCTNS by mid 2014
Chandigarh cops to soon get CCTV power, track wanted vehicles
Nothing fair about tendering process in Arunachal
E-district project rollout in 6 months in Arunachal: IT secy
How govt wants to put LPG subsidy money in your pocket
Cyber security strategy, amendment of IT Act on anvil
India won`t sign Budapest pact on cyber security
Muzaffarnagar riots: is state passing buck by blaming social media?
CSCs to sell insurance
CSC: future bright, present a bit tight
Telemedicine makes CSCs popular in Ajmer
Not all services available, CSCs under spotlight after 1st phase
Industry voices concern over procurement bill
For openness in data use
Cyber security policy: The missing `H`
Experts sceptical about the cyber security policy
Govt announces first ever cyber security policy
PM asks DeitY to formulate NeGP 2.0
No pension tension: Indore civic body`s work gets global recognition
Bringing e-literacy to Nagaland villages
"NeGP 2.0 should make use of social media"
Cards stacked against your plastic money
"Unless we use data, there is no open government"
Govt offering nearly 200 services through cell phones
Rape of Reason? Little data to link porn with rape
Coming soon: national information infrastructure
Plan panel to set up social media cell
Transparent govt online: New guidelines issued
Planning Commission kickstarts hackathon
From rape capital to safe capital
Fifth front of warfare
CCA to unveil standard for mobile digital signature
Govt to launch electronic services dashboard
Bharat Nirman Kendras to bridge digital divide
State Wide Area Network launched in Rajasthan
Need to adopt the changing e-governance practices, says Narayanasami
“India is victim to cyber espionage”
Social media’s role in governance highlighted
“Govt thinking about mandatory reporting of cyber attacks”
By April, file your police case online
Manmohan talks of women safety but too little too late?
Govt to cast security web around critical assets
Govt to cast security web around critical assets
Govt to recruit battalion of cyber warriors
Government soon to notify NCIIPC
Govt to recruit battalion of cyber warriors
“Aadhaar to help poor save more”
‘India can guide others in software industry’
The dispensables
“Madhya Pradesh plans to have a separate IT cadre”
Departments are not sharing data: Pitroda
Aadhar a magic number?
Govt and industry to work together on cyber security
Rights come with duties: Sibal
Delhi urges citizens to complain against stamp black-marketeering
No more queues for stamp papers
No claims for compensation for delay in services delivery
53 percent kids in India bullied online: Microsoft survey
No seva at passport kendra
India goes China way with maximum requests for online content deletion
Delhi Police sees silver lining in the cloud
Manipur leads in NeGP implementation, lags in its usage
Technical glitches at RPO causes inconvenience to citizens
e-District cuts through red tape in citizen service delivery
Content in regional languages a must for internet revolution: Pilot
DOT to auction 2G spectrum by May 2013
“In a PPP, government must be more partner-sensitive”
UID rejig will address security concerns: Nilekani
UIDAI introduces online authentication service
Time for law to get mobile
It took time to convince people on e-governance: Das
Delhi to bring more services under time-bound delivery law
Theft from MHA a security lapse: Pillai
Bihar to match Gurgaon and Bangalore in IT : Nitish
Rs 35 lakh didn`t repair this road...
NOFN is okay but where is the content?
Time for timely delivery of services
Coming soon: Govt`s Hindi spin on the web - www.?????.????
Child online protection is an imperative
Political will critical for ICT
Sibal holds consultation on draft national ICT policy 2011