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Oracle Adds AI Capabilities to Oracle Analytics Cloud

Oracle has showcased new AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Analytics Cloud. Leveraging the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service, the new capabilities assist analytics self-service users to more quickly and efficiently conduct sophisticated analysis and make better business decisions without having to wait for data scientists or IT teams. “Organization

BUSINESSNEXT Unveils an Experience Center to Share Glimpses of An Autonomous BFSI Future

BUSINESSNEXT, a universe of composable enterprise solutions for banks and financial services, today announced the launch of the experience center in its India based headquarter Noida which is geared up to showcase pathbreaking solutions and digital innovation in the BFSI domain. The experience center provides a unique immersive experience of the futuristic autonomous banking era to the BFSI dec

Education Ministry selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to modernize edtech platform DIKSHA

Oracle today announced that India’s Ministry of Education has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to modernize the country’s national education technology platform ‘Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing’ (DIKSHA). This migration will help make DIKSHA more accessible and lower its IT costs. The platform supports 1.48 million schools across all of India’s

SentinelOne bolsters India’s cyber defences

SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in autonomous cybersecurity, is amping up its offerings in India. The company today announced the launch of a virtual data center in Mumbai that will enable the growing number of Indian companies who rely on SentinelOne to shield their business from cyber attacks in a simple, compliant way.   “Cyber criminals are moving faster tha

Securing official communication

The government is upgrading its electronic messaging service to a more secure network. The national informatics centre (NIC), its information technology arm, will migrate all services on ‘mail.nic.in’ and ‘mail.gov.in’ to ‘email.gov.in’. So in a few months all official email accounts and data will migrate to gov.in domain.  The new domain, amon

Telecom woes and half-baked measures

As the telecom sector is mired in financial, regulatory and competition hurdles, and consumers are grappling with poor quality of services and connectivity, the government and the regulator are drafting a slew of policy initiatives to provide redress. The department of telecommunications (DoT) plans to unveil a new telecom policy (NTP) by the end of this year. The telecom regulatory authority o

CPWD to use electronic measurement book

Central Public Works Department (CPWD) will now be using an electronic measurement book (e-MB) that will help it to keep a tab on its various projects.   The e-MB will enable reporting of progress of works online as per the schedule of agreement with contractors based on which payments will be made. e-MB has been made mandatory from the first of next month doing away

“India needs a data empowerment law”

Why would Google develop self-driving cars? Google first had web search, search led to local search, which led to maps, maps led to street views, and street view led to data on everything around that. In the meantime, machine learning became powerful. It started identifying objects on the road, and all this led to self-driving cars. Fundamentally, when you have massive data pool you c

India’s App Economy

A 10 percent increase in India’s internet traffic leads to, on average, a 3.3 percent increase in India’s GDP, and a 10 percent increase in India’s mobile internet traffic leads to a 1.3 percent increase in the GDP, says a study, ‘Estimating the value of new generation internet based applications in India’, by the Indian Council for Research on International Econom

Making the cloud industry-friendly

India may not take a heavy-handed approach in regulating cloud computing. The telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) is expected to submit its recommendations on cloud computing to the department of telecommunications (DoT) in the next couple of months, says an official aware of the matter. In its submission, the regulator is considering industry-friendly rules governing cloud technology

Online payments, now a phone call away

A project worth Rs 1,000 crore by the department of post will serve as a shot in the arm for financial inclusion in the country. The department, say officials aware of the matter, has zeroed in on the US-based Hewlett Packard (HP) to set up the technology infrastructure for its countrywide rollout of a payment bank – a stripped-down version of a bank that would allow a limited savings dep

The UID pioneer thinks Aadhaar controversies miss the point

We started in July 2009 with two overarching contexts. The first context was identification. Many people did not have any identification document. Of course, there are many ID documents in India, but there was no single universal document, and even after adding up the existing ones there was no universal coverage. For example, the voter ID card is meant only for those above 18 years o

New telecom policy to be application driven: Manoj Sinha

The ministry of communications is working on a new application-driven telecom policy as opposed to the National Telecom Policy (NTP), 2012 which was connectivity driven, said minister Manoj Sinha.    Speaking at a seminar titled ‘ICT: engendering new governance structure’, he said that the new policy should focus on end users and should look for o

Security in peril

A few years ago, a public sector undertaking (PSU) in the manufacturing sector took part in a power plant’s contract bidding. It lost the contract to a Chinese firm. Most Chinese companies are known for their aggressive bidding, as they quote the lowest. They have been giving nightmares to many Indian PSUs, and private sector companies, for over ten years, by outbidding them in various te

Aadhaar: On a sticky wicket

In April, the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai was making news. Its ranking in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2017 dropped from the second position to 25th. In the same month, the institute was again trending, for another reason. A mischief by a group of third and fourth year undergraduate students not only surprised the top management of the institute but als

Why humans should lose and AI should win

The emerging sentience of Artificial Intelligence (AI) scares many. Those who are afraid of it are saying all of us should be. Behind that dire prognosis is something so fundamentally primeval that its sheer rawness erodes the carefully applied layers of sophistry and civilisation by generations of humanity. AI is intelligent in the same way that we consider someone else intelligent. Ye

Online education market to be $1.96 bn by 2021: Google, KPMG

Capturing the growing influence of the internet on the education industry in India, Google and KPMG have released a joint report titled, ‘Online Education in India: 2021. The report reveals that the online education industry will grow at a healthy rate of eight times, to become a USD1.96 billion industry by 2021.    The report is based on a comprehensiv

Government sanctions new posts to hire cyber security professionals

The government has sanctioned 111 posts of cyber security professionals for the Indian computer emergency response team (ICERT) under the ministry of electronics and information technology (MEITY), according to a ministry official, who added that the posts were sanctioned earlier this year.  The recruitment for the ICERT has been pending for at least five years and it is expe

Online learning is the way forward

Sameer Srivastava, a school topper from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, wanted to study in an IIT like any other engineering aspirant. But getting into an institution where only less than one percent of the applicants are selected was a big hurdle. Not cutting the IIT mark, Sameer decided to settle for an engineering college, which with its traditional curriculum and teachers was just good eno

Don’t panic, your Aadhaar is safe, writes RS Sharma

Privacy and data protection concerns have become serious in a digital world due to ease of search and aggregation, with or without Aadhaar. Type any name in Google and it will throw up thousands of results, giving data/information publicly available. Hence, the responsibility falls on organisations which collect data from individuals to protect it. If a state government puts bank account detail

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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