Digital India: Trotting Towards Realization of a Distant Dream
Recent data from the Reserve Bank of India show that the value of paper-clearing transactions have fallen from Rs 100 lakh crore to Rs 80.9 lakh crore, a fifth of the number by the end of the financial year 2016-17. The volume of these transactions has also fallen from a …
Blue Whale Challenge: The Suicide Game Gripping Teenagers
Introduction Game is defined as an activity that people engage in for amusement and leisure. With the emergence of social media, many youngsters have become hooked to online gaming. However, very often it’s difficult for us to distinguish what is good and bad on the internet. One such example is …
Click With Confidence: Viruses and the Modern Internet
Introduction Like myself, there are several other online writers out there who love to write and share their opinions with the world. We tend to seek social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to send our works across. We expect people to be interested in the topic and thereafter click on …
Net Neutrality in India: The Story so Far
Introduction The term ‘Net Neutrality’, which has recently been making headlines, means that anyone with an internet connection has equal access to all websites on the web. Whether it’s accessing government archives or shopping on Flipkart, you can visit any website you want as long as you pay your internet …
HWGO: Google Empowering Indian Women Through Internet
Google has been working on an initiative, Helping Women Get Online, to empower Indian women to use the Internet. Google describes the problem as being unique to India: India is one of the few countries in the world where the online audience is very skewed towards the male population, with only …