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DRONES TAKE OFF TO TRANSFORM ECONOMY WITH NEW POLICIES AND PROJECTS

The skies are abuzz with transformation. India, with its new Drone policy and opening the market further for the technology and startups, has made strides in this sector. With public-private partnerships to deliver medicines, vaccines and helping farmers with connectivity, usage of Drone has taken off with flying colours.

How e-governance will play a key role in infrastructural development

The union government has reinforced its commitment to using infrastructure as a force multiplier for sustained growth and focus on e-governance to boost the 'ease of doing business' in the country for the development of the nation

Taking drinking water to 200 million households

The Jal Jeevan Mission uses predictive data analytics and lot to make sure transparency and accountability is maintained. On a pilot basis, loT systems have been implemented in various states

PUBLIC SECTOR DRIVING FORCE BEHIND INDIA'S RAPID DIGITIZATION

Jezamin Abdul Razak, Senior Research Manager, Government Insights, IDC Asia/ Pacific talks about the use of cloud, loT, AI, blockchain, Data Analytics, bluetooth and GPS in government operations.

RESKILLING ESSENTIAL TO SURVIVAL

Eevera Senthamilselvan, Talent Transformation Lead at HyperVerge talks about working with Tier 2, 3 colleges, creating opportunities for them along with the importance of reskilling.

HOW DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING LEADS TO EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE

One of the criteria of effective governance is the right delivery of services. And data can help in the decision making. The best support for the same will come through emerging technologies. Anil Jain, Partner, Deloitte India talks about the adoption of smart governance for faster delivery of services to the citizens, the role blockchain, Al will play in the same and how it will transform the economy.

BLIND-SPOTS OR BLACK HOLES? COMMON MISTAKES IN SMART GOVERNANCE

Failure to address execution, the people-factor and the long tail impact – it's a small oversight that can turn into a broken hinge of even the strongest doors towards the future

Creating a winning combination for governments and businesses

Jagdish Mitra, Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Growth, Tech Mahindra, feels that in India today there is an awareness and acceptance of the role of technology in driving a fast, agile, and responsive age of governance.

DIGITAL INDIA HAS BEEN A SPECTACULAR SUCCESS

Nandan Nilekani, Chairman and Cofounder, Infosys and Founding Chairman UIDAI (Aadhaar), gives a bird's eye view of India's digital initiatives and how they will all contribute to smart governance. Excerpts from the video interview...

Empowering the business of local cricket

The professionalisation of international cricketing using the latest technology tools led to a huge shift in the very business of cricket and spawned a multi-billion dollar revolution. Now can the same thing be replicated at the local level?

EMERGING TECH CAN DELIVER A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

Ashish Wattal, Managing Director, Public Sector and Commercial Sales, India and SAARC, Cisco, talks about how during the pandemic, they enabled business continuity for over 200 government organizations across 26 state and central government entities and helped them stay connected and collaborate securely and seamlessly

ATLAS SHRUGGED-AGAIN

Should India flip the script in the book of geo-politics when it comes to the chapter of technology co-operation? Should it? Can it? A seasoned geo-politics expert translates the current set of events for the Indian tech industry and the regulatory stance.

ADDRESSING DATA SOVEREIGNTY, SECURITY AND CONNECTIVITY CONCERNS

The government is taking several proactive actions and a commitment to construct smart and resilient infrastructure to support long-term growth, says Debapriya Nandan, Sr. Director and Head - Public Sector Business Development, Oracle India.

Data Science, Cybersecurity And The Metaverse Future Of Higher Education

With a fast-growing lucrative market, it is essential to reinvent the higher education of tomorrow to shape and future proof it with advancing technologies

7 Higher Education IT Trends To Watch In 2022

Higher education is one of the sectors that has witnessed a radical transformation ever since the World War II. The digital revolution has ushered in newer ways of learning through online education, making it more accessible and affordable to a larger populace

WE NEED TO FUTURE-PROOF INDIA'S TALENT FOR THE DIGITAL WORLD

The accelerated adoption of digitisation post pandemic, and the demand for emerging technologies has increased the requirement of skilled employees. Qualities that companies consider valuable are changing along with the evolving needs of the IT industry. Sirisha Palepu, Director of People and Communities, Cisco India and SAARC, speaks about how the company is dealing with the issue of talent transformation

TECH IS MUTATING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE

According to Arvind Bali, CEO, Telecom Sector Skill Council, the pandemic prompted us all to wear multiple hats to maintain business continuity.

SKILLING AND RESKILLING FOR THE DEEP TECH ECOSYSTEM

India has a strong edge in IT. Developing new courses in areas that are adjacent to IT such as AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, cloud, and so on would help to leverage our existing strengths

SKILLING AND RE-SKILLING NEEDS OF RESOURCES ARE ACKNOWLEDGED SWIFTLY

Though there are no restrictions from the government on introducing 100% offline mode, the university follows a hybrid education model, says BB Kotturshettar, Head, School of Mechanical Engineering, KLE Technological University

THE PANDEMIC DIDN'T CREATE NEW DIGITAL TRENDS...

…It accelerated them, sometimes by a decade, argues Sanket Atal, SVP and Managing Director - Sites at Salesforce India. In a world where the ‘anywhere’ model is changing everything that worked when physical offices were the norm, and in an era where advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, blockchain and other emerging technologies are happening in ever shorter cycles – here’s how looking at, and managing, talent in a fresh way helps

SOFT AND HARD SKILLS ENSURE A SEAMLESS TRANSITION

According to Dr. Maheshwar Dwivedi, Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Technology, BMU, many innovative teaching pedagogies are being adopted like blended learning, flipped-classroom and MOOC-based learning

META-SKILLS: IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT THEM

Sameer Bendre, Chief People Officer, Persistent Systems Ltd gives a peek into how proactivity, granularity and scalability help in matching the challenges of the new world. He also talks about the need to pay attention to deployability, employee experience and employee lifecycle. We are confronting digital transformation of not just industries but talent as well, he stresses.

SEVERAL JOBS WILL BE CREATED DUE TO DEMAND SPURRED BY NEW TECH

The pandemic, as we all know, has forever changed several aspects of the IT industry. As there has been a rise in digitisation, the demand for skilled workers is increasing as well. In this regard, Richard Lobo, executive vice president, head HR, Infosys explains about how the company and its employees are dealing with the rapidly evolving IT industry.

PANDEMIC SAW NEW WAYS OF WORKING AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY

As businesses realign, employees too have to identify their potential to scale. As the scope of a role is constantly changing, an employee’s potential relating to future business objectives come into question. Ritu Rakhra, Regional HR Head – India, Dell Technologies, throws light on the task of talent transformation.

DEEP TECH SKILLS IMPORTANT EVEN FOR NON-TECH SECTORS LIKE MANUFACTURING AND EDUCATION

With the current staff cloud competency levels being still far away from the ideal state, organizations now understand that skilling and reskilling is essential in bridging this gap, says Amit Mehta, Head of Training and Certification, AWS

India could be the global hub for cloud solutions

While cloud computing has been gaining importance from several years, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated its growth further

DATA SCIENCE IS A KEY REQUIREMENT

Srinivas Rao K, Director, Human Resources, SAS India weighs in the new connotations of re-skilling and up-skilling as he lets us in on how the company is steering workforce transformation from acquiring new-age skills, hiring to performance, productivity to retention

Critical to concentrate on future-oriented skills and knowledge

Institutions must now comprehend future economic trends as well as technological changes in order to prepare students for employment in today’s fast changing world

Ai a boon to the job market

Artificial Intelligence will end up expanding the job market and not the commonly held belief that it will be shrinking it, explain Saket Dandotia, Co-Founder and COO and Shyam Vyas, VP Engineering at Toch.ai

The New Business Mantra: Everyone Has To Do Everything

The term “Jack of all trades” gained great prominence once. Then came the era of specialisation where you had to be “Master at just one thing”. Many companies adopted that mantra and did just one thing. We had Big Oil, Big Tech and Big Finance. Just stick to your own field of expertise, be good at it and reach the top. But now in business we are entering a stage where you have to be a “Master of all trades”