My Brand Book - First Brand Book on ICT Industry

The world’s cheapest phone has been recently launched in Delhi which just costs Rs.251.  The India-based company Ringing Bells has unveiled the most affordable smartphone – Freedom 251 at INR251 only. Dr Murali Manohar Joshi, Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, has launched the phone... See More

Touted as the first-ever visit by an Indian Prime Minster to the Facebook Headquarters, Modi’s visit has raised quite an eyebrow. The fact that top tech bosses of the Silicon Valley are taking keen interest in meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussing about his Digital India initiative is something that is being talked about. The key Indian entrepreneurs and academicians from the USA cite several reasons as to why this sudden spotlight on Modi has garnered so much interest. One of the entrepreneurs warned that the Indian telecom companies might be staring at trouble if companies such as Google and Facebook succeed in their ambitious projects to provide Internet access all over the world, including India. The tech industry has learned from mistakes made by taxi-hailing company Uber and wants to make sure governments don’t turn in adversaries when traditional industries are disrupted, he furthe...

The 2014 election manifesto of the  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  outlined how innovation, research and technology can transform India into a superpower by empowering, connecting and binding all stakeholders. The decisive mandate given to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, under the leadership of  Narendra Modi , in the general election marked a paradigm shift in the Indian political landscape; the people of India reposed their complete faith in Prime Minister Modi and his team. Finance minister Arun Jaitley  and his team must be complimented for taking forward the visionary BJP manifesto and turning it into actionable budget proposals, and also for setting the direction towards building a “Digital India” where innovation, research and technology will play a major role. Rural broadband and e-highways A pan-India programme called  “Digital India”  has been proposed in the 2014 budget to bridge the divide between digital “haves”and “have-n...