Tag: technology

Indo-Japan digital partnership: Co-creation, co-production and co-innovation is the future
20Jan By Grace TsoiNo Comments
Business, Politics, World

Indo-Japan digital partnership: Co-creation, co-production and co-innovation is the future

At a meet organized by India’s leading public policy body Ananta Aspen Centre, leaders suggested that co-creation, co-production and co-innovation is the way and the future for the emerging Indo-Japan digital partnership.The meet held on Monday was titled ‘India Japan Digital Partnership-Opportunity for Co-Creating and Co-Innovating’Addressing the meet Indian Ambassador to Japan Sanjay Kumar Verma noted: “India Japan relationship focuses on special strategic and global partnership, we can debate if digital is part of strategic but if we look at the trade geopolitics while global partnership is not only what India can give to Japan and vice-a versa but what they both can together when it comes to the larger world and as well as in the neighbourhood.”Japan Bank of industrial cooperation has
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J&K government to upgrade 180 public schools into smart schools
30Nov By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

J&K government to upgrade 180 public schools into smart schools

In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Srinagar city administration has embarked on an ambitious project to transform all government schools with owned buildings in the district on modern lines, equipping them with smart facilities and modern infrastructure.Under the project, a total of 180 schools, including 120 in urban areas and 60 in rural areas of the district, are being upgraded in terms of facilities. These schools will be equipped with modern facilities through interventions at infrastructural and operational levels.The project follows the successful completion of the pilot project of modernising 25 selected government schools taken up and completed during the last fiscal year. This was informed in a meeting convened in Srinagar at a Banquet Hall under the chairman...
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Discontent among Chinese people rises amid CCP’s draconian COVID-19 measures
5Nov By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
China

Discontent among Chinese people rises amid CCP’s draconian COVID-19 measures

A researcher at the Human Rights Watch has said that the citizens of China are “discontent” with President Xi Jinping’s measures to control coronavirus have pushed the country further into a surveillance state.Yaqiu Wang said that though the Chinese people are “proud” of the measures taken by Beijing to control the outbreak in the country, but there are signs people are fatigued and discontent with Xi’s extortions.“I am seeing more citizens criticising surveillance techniques… Many now view the methods as too much and unnecessary… I’ve seen posts to Chinese social media complaining about the facial recognition outside their compound,” Wang said.“Although we are seeing, slowly, an increased awareness and discontent with the state’s methods,” she added.As per media reports, apps were created
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Data collection by Chinese company ‘disquieting in the extreme’, says NZ Minister
30Sep By Grace TsoiNo Comments
Business, World

Data collection by Chinese company ‘disquieting in the extreme’, says NZ Minister

New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has said the collection of information on New Zealanders by Chinese company Zhenhua could adversely affect national security.Details of hundreds of New Zealanders - politicians, judges, business leaders, journalists and even criminals - have been collected by Zhenhua, which has been linked to the country's military and intelligence.Peters said it would be "naive" to think there was no connection with the Chinese state. "The part that is of concern is, what is the purpose in this case of this collection of data. I know why big businesses do it - it is to shape their market it is to look at influencers and all sorts of things. In this case, I think people would be asking why is a country doing it, and what is its ultimate purpose,” he
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Engineering testing lab ensures quality machinery for farmers in J&K
22Aug By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Engineering testing lab ensures quality machinery for farmers in J&K

In order to boost agricultural production in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Indian Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has set up an agriculture engineering testing lab for the testing of agriculture machinery at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) at Shalimar in Kashmir.“The Ministry of Agriculture inaugurated the centre last year. Here we check whatever machinery and equipment in the state or are being used in the neighbouring states, to see if they comply with specifications. We certify the machines regarding these norms,” said Prof. Nazir Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor of SKUAST.“Earlier, whatever machines used to come, they used to be provided to the farmers and its durability used to be less. With this testing centre, we are testing the q
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TikTok really is the central front in the US-China Tech war
2Aug By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

TikTok really is the central front in the US-China Tech war

If the future of the internet will be determined by a technology war between the United States and China, India is the key emerging-market battleground.Until recently, TikTok, the popular vertical video app had as many as 1 billion users but after the India ban on TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, including the messaging giant WeChat, the Clash of Kings mobile video game, and Baidu maps, the number of users plummeted rapidly.The devastating effect can be analyzed by the fact that TikTok was downloaded in India 611 million times in this year's first quarter, equating to 30.3% of its total downloads worldwide in the quarter and nearly double the total number of India downloads for all of 2019.The digital rupture between China and India virtually ensures that the latter will land firmly in Am...
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