Rural India always crops up in my discussions, not because it’s home to one of the largest populations in the world but because it has the most informationally isolated people globally. Since we work in rural India, offering information and access to services, Though many people often critical of the government’s inefficient implementation, they believe that their digital policies are in place to minimize the lag time in our development cycle.
Recently some of them wanted to explore digital interventions that was based on a recent meeting called by the ministry to discuss with civil society organizations how the former could make 50,000 of India’s 250,000 panchayats self-reliant by 2019. At this meeting, some encouraging and trailblazing ideas were proposed to the MoRD secretary Amarjeet Sinha. What surprised them the most was when the secretary discussed a list—supported by documented proof—of initiatives taken by MoRD to map the work and progress of its projects and programmes using digital tools and technology, especially smartphones and geo-tags.

Rural India always crops up in my discussions, not because it’s home to one of the largest populations in the world but because it has the most informationally isolated people globally. Since we work in rural India, offering information and access to services, Though many people often critical of the government’s inefficient implementation, they believe that their digital policies are in place to minimize the lag time in our development cycle.
Recently some of them wanted to explore digital interventions that was based on a recent meeting called by the ministry to discuss with civil society organizations how the former could make 50,000 of India’s 250,000 panchayats self-reliant by 2019. At this meeting, some encouraging and trailblazing ideas were proposed to the MoRD secretary Amarjeet Sinha. What surprised them the most was when the secretary discussed a list—supported by documented proof—of initiatives taken by MoRD to map the work and progress of its projects and programmes using digital tools and technology, especially smartphones and geo-tags.