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Digitale Ökonomie / Digital Economy

  • IN: Digitalisation is the bridge between hope and possibilities

    The year 2018 has seen the government partner companies and universities to explore AI, IoT, and Big Data based solutions.

    India’s growth story is hard to ignore. Looking back at the year gone by, we see that India has not just leapfrogged but pole-vaulted in the technology space—and this can be put down to India’s success in navigating the road from digital transformation to digital innovation.

  • IN: Haryana takes a step towards Digital State

    State Govt launches e-services, apps for admin

    The Haryana government today launched seven e-services and software applications in a measure to provide hassle free and graft-free administration to the people of the state.

    Launching the services in Panchkula near here, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the e-services would help translate the dream of 'Digital Haryana' into reality.

  • IN: Kerala aims to go fully digital: CM

    The State will leverage the e-governance platform to become the first fully digital State, says the Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy.

    Efficient and transparent delivery of services will be assured in this manner, he said at a function here to commemorate the first year in government.

  • IN: Kerala on path to become fully digital: Chandy

    Secretariat to become paperless office with the implementation of e-office

    Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday said that the State has charted out a plan to become a fully digital State.

    Delivering the inaugural address at the 17th national conference on e-governance being held here on Thursday, Mr. Chandy said that in keeping with that vision, the State had implemented a slew of initiatives like e-district and e-tendering while most of the government departments had embraced e-governance.

  • IN: Kerala to be first fully digital State

    Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday said Kerala would be the first fully digital State in the country utilising e-governance to deliver efficient and transparent services.

    Unfolding the government's plan for the next year at a function here to celebrate his ministry's first anniversary, Mr. Chandy said every citizen would be given an e-mail ID based on the UID Adhar, while all government transactions and applications would be through e-mail. By December 31, all panchayats would have 4G connectivity with optical fibre broadband. All pensions and scholarships would be distributed through banks. After Palakkad, Kannur, Kottayam and Malappuram districts, the rest of the 10 districts would be brought under the e-district project to provide certificates online. This project would be completed by March 31 next.

  • IN: NaMo and the digital economy

    The Indian political class often uses technology-aided development as a political talking point without actually executing anything.

    On a warm Thursday morning in New Delhi, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi made a bold pitch for IT becoming the face of India, and, in the process, coined the Twitter-friendly phrase ‘India Talent (IT)’ + ‘Information Technology (IT)’ is equal to ‘India Tomorrow (IT)’.

    “Citizens now have a direct say [in governance]. Earlier this was limited to once in five years or from one election to another. [The] Internet has truly empowered the citizens,” Mr. Modi said at the Big Tent Summit organized by online search giant Google last year.

  • IN: Tech leaders’ Budget Expectations: Focus on enhancing IT and digital infrastructure

    As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gears up to present her maiden union budget on July 5th, she met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is also an ace economist, before the big day. On February 1, PM Modi’s previous government had presented an Interim budget for spending till the new government took charge after the general election.

    So as the government unveils the budget for the financial year ending March 2020 soon, the Indian IT industry has also pinned its hopes on it.

  • IN: The new era of digital identification

    India is experiencing rapid digitization and so is the process of digital identification and customer onboarding.

    The recently passed Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will be paving the way for the next-generation of digital identification in our country. Biometric information of every individual is unique, so much so that it has always served as a gold standard for identification with the highest level of accuracy and a strong security.

  • India hiring gamification experts for Digital India initiative

    Experts to design gamification strategy to advertise Digital India among citizens, industry.

    India is looking for gamification experts to get involved in its campaign to digitise public services across the country.

    Gamification creates scenarios in which people compete or win prizes, while learning about a topic or behaving in a certain desirable way.

  • India peers into its digital future

    This week, India’s Supreme Court allowed the country’s ambitious Aadhaar ID scheme to proceed, whilst setting down rules to protect people’s rights and privacy. Gavin O’Toole finds that the ruling offers mixed blessings for a digital agenda whose ambition and pace have long outgrown its infrastructure and policy frameworks

    India’s vast ‘Aadhaar’ personal identity system has just won the backing of the country’s top court, in a major judgment which clears a path forward for prime minister Narendra Modi’s ground-breaking project. But the ruling also lays down boundaries around the scheme’s ambitions – setting out rules designed to protect citizens’ rights and privacy.

  • Israel Ranked Eighth in World for Digital Quality of Life

    Surfshark rankings put Israel first for internet affordability, but 59th for internet quality

    If you’re going to be working at home, Israel isn’t a bad place to be doing it: Israel ranks eighth among 85 countries around the world in the Digital Quality of Life Index compiled by the virtual private network provider Surfshark.

    Israel ranked No. 1 in the world for internet affordability, but the survey also found that Israel was in just 59th place for internet quality. The survey looked at 12 parameters that include such factors as price, quality, speed and stability of the network, level of government digital services and cybersecurity.

  • It’s now time for action on Australia’s Digital Economy: IIA

    The Internet Industry Association (IIA) welcomes the release yesterday of the Coalition’s Plan for the Digital Economy and E-Government and now “calls time” for an incoming government to take action.

    “We are pleased to see that the Coalition has now publicly released its policy and announced the need for immediate action to address Australia’s recent and alarming deterioration in global rankings with regard to our digital competitiveness and innovation,” said Peter Lee, CEO of the IIA.

  • Kagame: Digitisation is driving Africa’s progress

    Africa’s progress and economic growth is being realised in part due to the role that information and communication technologies are playing, President Paul Kagame said.

    He was addressing participants attending the Viva Technology Conference, known as “VivaTech” in Paris, France.

  • KE: Digitisation of State services runs into many hurdles

    In Summary:

    • Several projects launched to help modernise government services through the multi-million shilling e-Government initiative are currently not working despite millions of tax payers’ money having been used to install them.
    • Kenyans online have repeatedly complained about services like the SMS passport and ID tracking service which was supposed to provide Kenyans with enquiries about the progress of their passport or ID applications.
    • The stalled projects raise questions of the ability of various departments in the government to fully implement and maintain large, expensive ICT projects.
    • Local IT experts are however, stating that if the government does not take appropriate steps to ensure the maintenance and updating of the software and hardware systems are done appropriately, all these projects risk failure.
    • Another reason that has been advanced for the collapse of electronic systems is that they were designed by foreign software companies and therefore, maintenance and any upgrading has to be done by the same companies and this means extra expenses.

  • KE: ICT Ministry Seeks To Recognize ‘Gig’ Economy In Draft Digital Strategy

    The Ministry of ICT and Youth Affairs has drafted the Digital Economy Strategy.

    The first draft went live a few weeks ago. It is developed following Kenya’s adoption of the Digital Economy Blueprint for Africa that was launched by President Kenyatta in May 2019.

    On the whole, the Draft Digital Strategy is based on six pillars: Digital Government, Digital Business, Infrastructure, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Digital Skills and Values and Digital Inclusion.

  • Kenya Kwanza digital master plan key to job creation, economic growth

    One of the key promises of the Kenya Kwanza administration was to transform provision of services by leveraging technology. Well, the promise is on course with ongoing implementation of the Kenya National Digital Master Plan 2022-2032, which underpins the country’s digital plans.

    The ambitious plan centres around five pillars comprising digital infrastructure, digital services and data management, digital skills, digital entrepreneurship, and effective alignment to policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks. The ultimate aim of the project is to enable the government to deploy technology to improve public services by digitising government records and, more fundamentally, foster an innovation and entrepreneurship culture.

  • Kenya to Scale-up Transformative ICT Applications

    Kenya will expand technology-based platforms for transparency and accountability to increase opportunities for economic transformation and growth.

    The government has secured an additional US$55.1 million to scale up digital inclusion, content development, and e-government and shared services. According to the World Bank ,the new funding will increase financing under the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project to US$169.5 million.

  • KH: Ministry to prepare the country for digitalisation

    The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications urged a working group to draft a digital government policy framework in line with digital economy policy.

    Minister Chea Vandeth said on Tuesday during a meeting at the ministry that it is working on drafting the framework to further study trends at the regional and global level, and collect input from key experts who have expertise in the preparation of such policies.

  • KN: 45 youths to participate in Federation's knowledge-based economy workshop

    AS the Federation explores its prospects of achieving a knowledge-based economy, the government of St. Kitts and Nevis will be hosting the first-ever MobileApps Workshop to commence early next week.

    The workshop, dubbed “GoSKN – Brightpath Mobile Applications Development Workshop”, will be hosted by the Ministry of Information Technology at the Marriott Hotel and will run from January 24 to 27.

    Acting Director in the Department of Information Technology Christopher Herbert told SKNVibes that the workshop is a tangible expression of the vision of Prime Minister Dr. the Right Hon. Denzil L. Douglas and Minister of Information Technology Glen Phillip who envision a St. Kitts-Nevis knowledge-based economy.

  • KR: ICT Leadership Toward Human-centered Technology

    We are now in the century of the city. With the rapid pace of urbanization, IBM has predicted that 70% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. This will require more intelligence to be infused into the way our cities work. The concept of the smart city has been introduced placing emphasis on ICT(Information Communication Technology) to make cities more sustainable. In essence, all of the public functions of the city are networked in every corner to increase economic efficiency. Employees can work from home without having to go to their workplace, which can reduce the burden of traffic and environmental problems, and improve the convenience of life. Cities can also improve public security and welfare through systematic and integrated city management.

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