Archive for the ‘government’ Category
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
In the recently held elections in the state of Tamil Nadu we internet companies had a lot to cheer about - major parties in the state promised to give laptops for free to students [Govt could face legal action]. So irrespective of which party would win our industry had to ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
During June/July 2011 the government of India announced the launch of $35 tablet. It was supposed to have bee in the market by July itself but now it is expected to be launched on Oct 5, 2011. For some reason the entire project has been very confidential - there were ...
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The print and TV media in India are no doubt the hot favorites of the governments in India (Central/Federal & State) and the politicians. The government spends sizable amounts of money on the already cash rich newspapers. Most of us in the internet industry have waited to get a piece ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2011
I was reading "The IT Act of India needs to make provision for constituency websites" which talks about the lack of information of the 250,000 electoral constituencies India has (parliamentary/federal/centre, assembly/state and panchayat/local).
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
I came across an interesting piece "Leadership lessons from Mubarak's failed regime", written by John R. Ryan, president of the nonprofit Center for Creative Leadership. Not sure how many Indian political parties will even want to read such articles.
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