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TopicDigital Divide

Topic: Digital Divide

Launched by Khattar, how Haryana’s Rs 700-cr tablet scheme for govt school students has fallen apart

Gadgets distributed to govt school students with much fanfare in 2022 lie unused due to a lack of internet access, leaving poor students struggling to access study material.

UNICEF warns of precarious future for children amid climate change, tech divide

The report highlights demographic shifts, climate crises, and technological breakthroughs as key challenges.

UNDP official warns of ‘digital divide’ threatening ‘some youth to be left behind’

UNDP's Marcos Neto reiterated the organisation's commitment to intentionally inclusive' digital development.

India tops global internet shutdown list for 6th year in a row — ‘it is widening digital divide’

India accounted for nearly 41% of the 283 documented internet shutdowns across 39 countries in 2023, according to a report by digital rights nonprofit Access Now.

India has $1 trillion digital dream, but 73% youth lack basic email skills, shows NSSO survey

Majority of respondents in 15-29 age group reported inability to do basic computer tasks. 73% lack routine email skills, less than 3% said they could code, in survey released this month.

Solar panels, new telecom sites — TRAI’s ideas to get far-flung Himachal districts connected

In a report released Monday, TRAI has recommended central and state authorities should collaborate to ensure connectivity in districts like Lahaul & Spiti, Mandi, Kullu, and Chamba.

Onus on G20 leaders to bridge digital gap in the world, Modi talks inclusivity at Bali summit

Addressing a session on digital transformation, the PM said benefits would only be realised when digital access would be inclusive and its use widespread.

Covid lockdown cost children 2 trillion hours of learning. Classroom culture needs reset

UNICEF’s latest report suggests that most children leave primary school across 32 low- and middle-income countries. But it's not too late.

Joint patents with farmers — how new IIT Madras director hopes to make institute great

Kamakoti Veezhinathan, who took charge as IIT Madras director in January, says there will be no tinge of caste bias at institute, talks of plans to bring rural India into tech ecosystem.

Sustainable financing is key to access digital healthcare, education and financial services

Digital inclusion bonds are becoming a tool to make technology accessible for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals across the spectrum.

On Camera

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them, wrote GN Lawande in 1958

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.