Internet in India
Digital distraction is becoming a bigger problem of the day. I wrote about smartphones increasing time taken to finish a meal in restaurants, the sad part such distractions is the reduction in family time. But then I make a living out of the same digital world! I came across an article today which asks if we are a self-interrupter? I think … [Read more] about Blame yourself for the Digital Distractions in your life
cross IndiaIt is that time of the year. The entire internet eco-system wants to read Mary Meeker's annual internet report. This year there has been a substantial focus on India (55 slides - slide 232 to 287). Internet penetration is at 27%, 355 million of 1.3 billion in India are online (there is still a lot of room to grow, good news). 72% … [Read more] about 46% of online Indians primarily consumed local language content: Mary Meeker
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a lot of interest to give a push to Digital India. The onus is always on the individual ministries & departments to embrace Digital India, they are supposed to have websites which are constantly updated and content must be in multiple Indian languages. So what is the current state of Indian govt websites … [Read more] about Digital India: A list of popular government websites in India
Google and KPMG India released a comprehensive report "Indian Languages - Defining India's Internet" in April 2017. The report has a lot of useful details which were not known to most of us. Mint had recently carried a summary from the report. India has 234 million Indian language users online, compared to 175 million English users The … [Read more] about 9 of the 10 new internet users today are Indian language users: Google
I came across an interesting research findings in a book on Small Data. It talks about how the time taken to finish a meal has increased in restaurants as customers are busy with their smartphones (Facebook, Whatsapp). I am not surprised with these statistics as we often see families and friends spending a lot of time on their smartphones instead … [Read more] about Smartphones increasing time taken to finish a meal in restaurants