signNow and bi2ai Announce New Strategic Partnership for E-Signature Solution for Digital India Initiative

    2020-12-03T07:56:50+00:00December 2nd, 2020|India Inc Views - India Global Business, News in Brief|

    bi2ai is expanding its portfolio with signNow to offer customers the ability to quickly automate their signature workflows and easily digitize their document processes.

      Rural Bharat leads India in digital growth

      2020-06-06T09:10:15+00:00June 5th, 2020|Analysis - India Global Business, India Inc Views - India Global Business|

      Boasting a total user base in excess of 574 million users and with the second-fastest growing Internet savvy population, India offers a $50 billion-plus commercial potential via new users and its rural populace. Consumption habits forced by the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a further jump in those numbers.

        E-Gram can help facilitate data-driven investments at local levels

        2020-05-21T09:29:51+00:00May 20th, 2020|Interview, Interviews - India Global Business|

        Interview Rasha Omar, country director of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), India discusses how E-Gram, a digital initiative launched by PM Modi, will strengthen the governance and credibility of local government institutions. How do you see India's E-Gram portal, the initiative to connect its village-level governance, playing out for the economy? Since 1993, when the 73rd Constitutional Amendment devolved political and economic power to local bodies, gram panchayats have increasingly acted as instruments for local social and economic development [...]

          A smart solution to socio-economic development

          2020-05-11T05:24:13+00:00April 24th, 2020|2020, Guest Columns - India Global Business, North America Edition – 24 April-07 May 2020, Social Impact Focus - India Global Business, UK Edition – 24 April-07 May 2020|

          With its Smartpur initiative, Nokia aims to provide the benefits of broadband connectivity to the ‘telecom-dark’ areas of the country, empowering communities and preparing India for a digital future. Highlights: Digital connectivity will provide India with the means to rapidly transform its socio-economic landscape. Nokia’s Smartpur programme creates a sustainable ecosystem for smarter villages where community members can leverage digital tools to bring efficiency in daily lives. It encompasses the basic tenets of Digital India by targeting five key areas of development [...]

            The flexibility offered by e-learning holds many merits

            2019-09-27T10:57:21+00:00September 26th, 2019|2019, North America Edition – 27th September 2019, UK Edition – 27th September 2019|

            An EdTech champion discusses the role online learning can plan in upgrading India’s education system. Over the past two decades, despite rapid economic growth and technological advancement, government and investor interest, and the rise of EdTech companies such as Byju’s, India’s education system remains among the worst in the world. Despite enacting the Right to Education A in 2009, which aimed to give every child in the country the right to a full-time elementary education “of satisfactory and equitable quality”, [...]

              Digital India aims to blend the digital and physical worlds by uniting people, services, and devices

              2019-08-19T06:54:18+00:00August 9th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – August 2019|

              Som Satsangi is the Vice President and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in India. In this interview with ‘India Global Business’, he weighs up what makes India an attractive R&D base, the impact of Digital India alongside Make in India and HPE’s plans to invest $500mn in the country. What makes India an attractive R&D base in the context of plans for a new HPE campus? India’s highly skilled talent pool plays a critical role in the growth of [...]

                The future is already here

                2020-03-20T09:38:02+00:00May 8th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – April 2019|

                Joyeeta Das is the Founder and CEO of Gyana. In the interview with ‘India Global Business’, the tech entrepreneur shares her thoughts on the current and upcoming trends in tech. How has Big Data and AI evolved in the context of Gyana? It has always been a problem of scale. Also, techwise, we had to invent the stack as there is no ready-made software stack for deep learning on geospatial data. Currently, we are leading this space and have two [...]

                  UK-India Tech Partnership: Potentially paradigm-changing

                  2018-12-11T11:40:09+00:00December 7th, 2018|2017/2018, UK Edition – December 2018|

                  The alliance between the tech sectors in the UK and India has embarked on several path-breaking initiatives that can generate billions of dollars of revenues and generate millions of new jobs, not only in the two countries but also elsewhere in the world. India’s IT industry is, arguably, the most famous component of its $2.6-trillion economy. Apart from being a $160-billion sector, or more than 6 per cent of India’s GDP, it has played a massive role as an enabler of India’s emergence [...]