Digital India

This article is a feminist commentary on India's national digital agenda in the current political context. The analysis pursues three main policy strands—social welfare, democracy, and economic growth, unpacking the meta-narrative of technology, gender, and development that characterizes the particular complexion of authoritarian neoliberalism reconstituting Indian democracy in digital times. The Indian case, the article submits, is reflective of the contemporary digital moment, not only marked by the evisceration of the transformative content of gender politics, but also constitutive of it. Under the circumstances, it is imperative to produce alternative feminist imaginaries of social, political, and economic discourse nationally and globally.

Published by: Penn State University Press
DOI: 10.5325/jinfopoli.6.2016.0371
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jinfopoli.6.2016.0371
Page Count: 32

This article brings out two tendencies marking the regulatory framework of digital journalism, one ridden with control and the other with laissez faire. We begin by introducing the key actors and dynamics in digital journalism in India, and outline the contours of the regulatory architecture. We then detail the regulatory mechanisms implicating digital journalism as a form of speech and a form of business. Reflecting on the personality of the regulatory framework , we point out two phenomena: the simultaneous endurance of restrictive and market liberal responses; and, the persistent non-intervention on key regulatory challenges. While the latter is captured through the idea of "considered silence," the seemingly contradictory tendencies of the former are argued be part of the inheritance of analog thinking in media regulation in India.

Digital education is a campaign initiated by the Indian Government to move towards a new
direction and ensure that education services are made accessible electronically to a student
through enhanced online infrastructure. This paper is focused largely on both primary and
secondary data. Primary data is collected primarily from the education sector by lectures and
students about how much they like emerging technologies. Since changes are happening
anyway, the best thing is to know more about them, so we can lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our wishes.

India is the fastest growing economy in the world. It is also the seventh largest economy in the world by GDP measure and the second largest in terms of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). The digital Indian plan was a major step by the government in India to bring all segments into purview. It has a three pronged agenda of providing infrastructure, governance and digital empowerment to every citizen. This initiative will transform the economy of the nation and make it among the top seven countries globally to go completely digital. But, inherently this exercise was a critical need to get the vast population and the informal sector into the folds of accountability and get statistics on the informal economy in India. Although, there is no accurate figure defined as BOP for the Indian sector by the government statistical organizations, the below poverty line statistics published by the government look at people living on even less than $ 0.45 per day. Such being the socio economic situation with the thrust on a lot of developmental measures and poverty alleviation methods, there has been a significant improvement in employment opportunities and as per some statistics we have seen a large number of households moving out of dire poverty. The importance of these digitization efforts is planned economic and societal growth triggered by a massive adoption of digital technologies. This paper studies the
various action plans in digitization and their impact on the BOP sector in India.

This article delves into the least explored area in the otherwise exploding research on television in India: the field of distribution. It paints a textured picture of the ways in which the informal business of distribution in the city of Patna was engulfed in the regulatory warp and weft of mandatory digitalization. The article argues that regulatory interventions to formalize this 'primitive' segment of the television economy led to reorganizing the balance of interests in the emergent ecology of digital television in India.

As an imagination, the 'smart city' is rapidly becoming an integral part of our urban futures. Situated in the contemporary moment of 'data revolution' and India's techno-urban context, this paper is an attempt to reflect upon the socio-technical imaginaries of data-driven urbanism and the incumbent reconfigurations of how we know, experience and govern a city. The author provides ethnographic vignettes of five little traditions of data-driven urbanism in Delhi pertaining to: the new 'image of the city', the changing nature of expertise, civic data activism, data-driven consumer applications and political communication and analytics. Foregrounding the generative potentials of each of these socio-technical sites, the paper argues for a meta-analytics of data.

Abstract: India’s soft power is on the rise, in parallel with its economic power as one  of  the  fastest growing major economies in the world. This chapter discusses India’s soft power within four domains: firstly, the democratic strengths of India, a particular distinction among the BRICS countries. As the world’s largest democracy, India has retained and arguably strengthened democracy in a multi-lingual, multi-racial and multi-religious society. The second domain examines the diasporic dimension of India’s international presence, increasingly viewed by Indian government and corporates as a vital resource for its soft power. As the world’s largest English-language speaking diaspora, the Indian presence is visible across the globe. The third domain focuses on the emergence of an Indian internet – part of the Indian government’s ‘Digital India’ initiative, launched in 2015 - and its potential for becoming the world’s largest ‘open’ internet. The chapter argues that, with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the push for digital commerce and communication is likely to increase. Already home to the world’s second largest internet population, its creative and cultural industries, notably Bollywood, have the potential to circulate across various digital domains, resulting in globalized production, distribution and consumption practices. However, the chapter argues that these three domains of soft power will remain ineffective until India is able to eliminate its pervasive and persistent poverty, afflicting large number of its citizens.

Resumo: O poder brando (soft power) da Índia está em ascensão paralelamente ao seu poder econômico, sendo uma das principais economias em crescimento no mundo. Este trabalho discute o poder brando da Índia em quatro domínios: primeiro, os pontos fortes democráticos da Índia, uma distinção particular entre os países do BRICS. O segundo aspecto examina a dimensão diaspórica da presença internacional do país, cada vez mais vista pelo governo e pelas empresas indianas como um recurso vital para o seu poder brando. Como a maior diáspora de língua inglesa do mundo, a presença indiana é visível em todo o mundo. O terceiro domínio se concentra no surgimento de uma internet indiana – parte da iniciativa Índia Digital do governo, lançada em 2015 – e seu potencial para se tornar a maior internet aberta do mundo. Por fim, o artigo argumenta que, com o governo do primeiro-ministro Narendra Modi, o impulso para o comércio e a comunicação digital provavelmente aumentará. Afinal, além da sua cultura e criatividade, o país abriga a segunda maior população da internet do mundo.

The phrase "Internet of Things" (IoT) as a conceptual paradigm was introduced by consumer sensor expert and innovator Kevin Aston during a presentation to the company Procter and Gamble (P&G) in 1999. (Marr, 2015) He believes that unlike the twentieth century computers that "were brains without senses," in the twenty-first century,, and can "sense things for themselves." (Gabbai, 2015) The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) describes IoT as an "ecosystem where interconnected devices and services collect, exchange and process data... to adapt dynamically to a context... [and] is [linked]... to cyber-physical systems... [enables]... Smart Infrastructures by enhancing their quality of service provisioning." (ENISA, 2017)

DIGITAL INDIA IS A CROWN JEWEL PROGRAMME INTRODUCED BY INDIAN GOVERNMENT. DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME CONSISTS OF THREE VISION AREAS. FIRST VISION AREA IS PROVIDING DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS UTILITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL, SECOND VISION AREA IS PROVIDING SERVICES AND GOVERNANCE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL OF THE NATION ON DEMAND AND THIRD VISION AREA DEALS WITH EMPOWERING CITIZENS DIGITALLY. IN TERMS OF POPULATION, ANDHRA PRADESH STATE STOOD IN TENTH PLACE IN INDIA. AS PER 2011 CENSUS, ANDHRA PRADESH FEMALE POPULATION IS 2, 47, 46, 590. ANDHRA PRADESH STATE’S RURAL WOMEN ARE 1, 74, 28,445 AND THE URBAN WOMEN ARE 73, 18, 145. ANDHRA PRADESH STATE GOVERNMENT IN PARALLEL WITH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PUT MANY EFFORTS IN EMPOWERING WOMEN IN ANDHRA PRADESH THROUGH DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAMME. IN THIS PAPER, AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO IDENTIFY THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL INDIA ON ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF URBAN AND ANDHRA PRADESH STATE’S RURAL WOMEN, TO MAKE COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL INDIA ON ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF URBAN AND RURAL WOMEN OF THE SELECTED STATE AND TO PICK OUT THE CHALLENGES AND AFFAIRS ENCOUNTERED WHILE EXECUTING DIGITAL INDIA FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE STATE.

Social marketing is not generally used for commercial marketing purposes but rather for social good. Social marketing has two parent theories to support itself such that-"a social parent" where social science and social policy approaches is emphasized upon and the second is "Marketing parent" that includes commercial and public sector marketing approaches. Digital India, Swatch Bharat Abhiyan, Make in India is a Program to prepare India for a knowledge future and positioning India as a clean and hygienic country. Honorable Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India has laid emphasis on National e-governance plan and has given its approval for Digital India-A program to transform India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy. Digital India is an ambitious program of Government of India projected at Rs 1,13,000 crores. This will be for preparing India for knowledge based transformation and delivering good governance to citizens by synchronized and coordinated engagement with both central government and state government's level. The campaigns like Digital India, Swatch Bharat Abhiyan and Make in India has been started almost one and half years back but the effectiveness of these social marketing campaign is still questionable. This study is an attempt towards exploring the popularity of different social marketing campaigns on Youths which are being run in the state of Punjab. Major focus of the study is on examining the awareness, popularity and perception of these social advertisement campaigns and to explore if these advertisement campaigns are able to achieve their advertisement objectives or not.

The present innovation has been accepted and documented by National Innovation Foundation - India (Department of Science & Technology, Government of India); Appreciated by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India;  Awarded by Vijnana Bharti, Ministry of Science & Technology, Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India;  Commended by Mr. Narendra Modi, the Honorable Prime Minister of India;  and finally endorsed with Presidential Award by Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, the Honorable President of India. ....... and with yesterday's proclamation of Union Home Minister to introduce Multipurpose ID Card, the present idea is all set to become a digital identity for 133.92 crore Indians.

Multipurpose ID is a combination of a Techno Smart Card carrying a 20-digit universal identification number to record the entire life time data of an individual and a touch screen Smart Cell Phone for electronic surveillance. Both the units can work separately or together. Such a unique system would replace all possible documents procured by an individual during his life time.

If implemented effectively, the Nation would have a red letter day in the history as the change will shape billion lives and bring respite to administrative machinery and public that has crumpled under the red-tape.

This chapter examines the journalistic practice of leading TV new anchors on Twitter.
Two specific aspects of their practice on Twitter are examined here: variations in their messaging behaviour, and shifts in their opinions towards political actors.
We draw on a corpus of over 2000 tweets generated by three TV news anchors, having the top-three following on Twitter, over a period of 13 months.

This research paper focuses on the growth of digitalization and the changes faced in the present era due to changing technology. Digitalization is very much evident in different spheres of businesses. Education, Entertainment, Online business, documentation etc. This paper focuses on the reasons of going digital that is the benefits which will avail due to implementation. It focuses on how information can be saved due to technology. It includes the benefits and different strategies that can be availed due to implementation. The cost factors are also considered. Also the challenges faced during the plan are acknowledged.

Digital India is a programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future. The focus is on making technology central to
enabling change. It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments. It weaves together a large number of ideas
and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal. E-governance, one of
the pillars of Digital India initiatives, means the application of information and communication technologies in the
government business and transactions to deliver better government services, to provide free information to the citizens and
to make government most efficient in its functioning by using electronic means. People are able to get better services and
access to government information which would lead to a better interaction between the government and citizens. Therefore,
e-governance facilitates better interface between government and citizens. Information Technology (IT) is the lifeline of egovernance.
The objective of this paper is to highlight the Digital India Initiative of Central Government and the experience
of government of Andhra Pradesh in revolutionizing governance through digital revolution

Abstract:     
Making India a $20 Trillion Economy from a $2 Trillion economy requires tremendous amount of effort from all concerned especially from the government. The fundamental requirements for any real growth are Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency and Trust. They are interconnected.

In today’s competitive world, it is the technological strength of a nation that decides its standing in the global arena. Technology has become the prime mover behind growth and prosperity. A nation that masters technology thus derives competitive advantage and respect.

Information Technology has made it possible to make information and services reach to the ordinary men and women even in remote areas, easily and effectively. Availability of information is the key to empowerment of the stakeholders. This also reduces the scope for discretion and manipulation.

IT is a great enabler for empowerment, equity and efficiency. Every household and every individual needs to be digitally empowered. Services need to be digital by default. That means that existing services that aren’t digital needs to be redesigned completely so that the customers’ needs are central and the best use of digital technology can be made throughout the entire process.

Community engagement is a critical part of democratic process. We need to engage, to build trust and inform service design. Digital channels such as social media allow us to do this in ways that have never been possible before.

All government transactions needs to be transparent and delivered through technology with the least cost for the citizen. Good practices that are already implemented by various states can be modified to suit the needs of different states and regions. Most important is that we need to standardize all the products without affecting the individual needs so that the same data can be used for multiple functions.

The government while spending on e-Governance applications should also see to it that its citizens, who are the ultimate beneficiaries of those applications, come to know about them and, more importantly, are given incentives to actually use them. E-Governance is supposed to cut government expenditure and wastage of public funds and ensure corruption-free governance while improving the productivity of government employees.

Government of India has launched the initiative “Digital India”, a programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, with the focus on making technology central to enabling change. It pulls together many existing schemes and are planned to be implemented in a synchronized manner. While many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost, the schemes are being restructured and re-focused in a mission mode and are trans-formative in totality.

The three Key Areas focused by government of India in the Vision of Digital India are:
Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
Governance & Services on Demand
Digital Empowerment of Citizens

The nine Pillars of Digital India identified by the government are:
Broadband Highways
Universal Access to Phones
Public Internet Access Programme
E-Governance – Reforming government through Technology
eKranti – Electronic delivery of services
Information for All
Electronics Manufacturing –Target NET ZERO Imports
IT for Jobs
Early Harvest Programmes

This paper would look upon challenges and changes needed for translating this vision into reality and also the associated benefits that may accrue in doing so, like giving impetus to the “Make in India” dream for improving the ease of doing business in India thus attracting foreign capital.

Keywords: Digital, India, Development, e-governance