ver the past 20 years, the increase in computing power by about eight to 10 orders of magnitude has brought the costs of using digital technologies down to a tiny fraction of their year 2000 levels (Figure 1). Figure 1. The costs of using many technologies are dropping rapidly From Charting Pathways for Inclusive Growth: From Paralysis to Preparation, Pathways to Read More

PRIVACY groups have slammed the Federal Government for their silence over a controversial internet health record forced on every Australian as of next year. More than $1.7 billion of taxpayer’s money has gone into developing a personalised My Health Record for every Australian. It will detail every subsidised medicine used, every doctor and hospital visit, blood test result, X-ray and scan ever Read More

Overhead view of a student studying FT21P1 Overhead view of a student studying Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Learndirect, the UK’s largest adult training provider, has blamed the government’s austerity programme for its failure to meet the education regulator’s minimum quality standards. The company, which was privatised by David Cameron’s coalition government in 2011, on Thursday complained that being forced to “manage Read More

Nearly every major technology reform bill has followed a similar path over the last 30 years. After being introduced as standalone legislation, lawmakers eventually attach it as an amendment to the defense authorization bill. It seems the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act is heading down the same well-traveled trail. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) have filed an amendment to the NDAA Read More

The Centre today informed the Supreme Court that it will set up a specialised agency mechanism to block and curb sharing of sexual offence videos on social networking platforms in order to check cyber crimes. A bench of justices M. B. Lokur and U. U. Lalit asked the Centre to specify the structure and functions of the agency or the Read More

Maruti Suzuki India and the government of Gujarat state together took an initiative called ‘All Gujarat Institute of Driving, Technical Training and Research (AGIDTTR)’. The objective of this public-private-partnership was to provide lucrative employment opportunities to the tribal youth through comprehensive driver training program. And now this initiative has achieved a milestone of training 10,000 tribal youths in professional driving. Read More

Rishikesh: A major change is imminent in the country’s education policy with emphasis on quality education to all, Union Minister for Human Resource Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. “Quality education to all is a prerequisite for building a better country. The Centre is moving towards a big change in its education policy to achieve the objective of making quality education Read More

11:41  Modi appoints 4 ministers to brief media on Kashmir unrest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Anath Kumar to brief the media about the government’s efforts to bring peace to troubled Kashmir. The development comes after the one-sides news presentation after Read More

Heeding to the industry’s demand for starting spectrum auction from an auspicious date, government has deferred the mega sale of mobile frequencies by two days to October 1. “For start of the auction 29th September READ start of the auction 1st October,” the revised Notice Inviting Application for spectrum auction released by the Department of Telecom (DoT) said. As per the earlier schedule, bids for airwaves was scheduled Read More

Brazil’s state-led oil company, Petrobras, may buy marketing rights for the cash-strapped Paralympic Games set for September, a source involved in the negotiations told Reuters on Wednesday. The support, if approved, could help bridge the Games’ budget shortfall, now that a judge has overturned an injunction blocking the use of new public funds for the 40-billion-real ($12.5 billion) Olympics and Read More