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Teaching and Learning are two sides of same coin

Teaching and Learning are two sides of same coin Learning and teaching go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin.. Among other things, good teaching demands continued learning. And good learning always in search of some teaching opportunity. A successful professional always has a desire to mentor someone. To be sure, there are no completely teaching tools or completely learning tools. Every learning tool has a teaching side to it and every teaching tool has learning side too. While using a teaching tool teacher is always concerned about its effects on learner, its learning demands and learning benefits.  By learning demands we mean the additional effort a student or a leaner needs to put to make the teaching tool effective. In a similar fashion, every learner, while using a learning tool must consciously ponder over its potentials as a teaching tool. In other words, teaching and learning are not two separate activities although they are distinct ones. (A class has to hav

Technology is current language

Technology is current language  Tools have played an important role in human life.  Tools have simplified our efforts and amplified results. Our daily  life consists of using tools and words. Today we are using tools as much as we use words. Technology is providing a range of tools for different tasks, the same way language provides words for different purposes. In summary technology is assuming a status of language in our life. Hence I say, Technology is the current language. 

Language is the first Technology

Language is the first Technology  Ability to use language is uniquely human characteristic. Ever since humanity invented language , language has enabled human progress. Language has helped us communicate with each other, formulate concepts, ideas and write stories,  keep secrets, share knowledge , express love and anger, appreciate and abuse others and more. An ability to learn and use language is the basic need for any human to be a part of a society.  Language has been a major medium of expressing creativity. ( other mediums include drawing, sculpting and more...).   For most of human history - mastering language and using it as a means of expressing creativity is a major occupation of humans. Epics, poems, novels, stories , limericks, sonnets and more are running examples.  

#7 Digital India Leaders

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#6 Digital India Innovator

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Another important audience intended by the book is DIGITAL INDIA INNOVATORS. . These are the small, but significant and rapidly emerging digital Indians who have deep dreams and tall talent to look at digital India infrastructure and come out with innovative product, services and business models. These solutions could be india-specific to be targeted at a section of Indian society say rural or urban. These services  can be for meeting specific in-transition population  - say people who earn and spend all money in cash. The innovator solution can also be with global focus but may start in India and use Digital india as a test bed.

#3 Digital India Worker

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Digital India- Open APIs for Developers

Under the Digital India initiative, the government has mandated an open API policy for five key programmes, meaning data from these programmes must be made accessible for similar creative use. The emerging solutions could further the cause of financial inclusion and reduce complexities in transactions. The five programmes are Aadhaar, e-KYC (know your customer), e-Sign (a mechanism for digitally signing documents that is legally accepted), proposed privacy-protected data sharing, and the Unified Payments Interface or UPI, an initiative of the National Payments Corporation of India which will allow fund transfer between banks with the help of a single identifier. See here for more  APIs on Datasets

DigiPay

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DigiPay CSC e-Governance Services India Limited has collaborated with The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) at locations where CSC has been acting as Business Correspondent. This payment system is called as DIGIPAY. This system facilitates disbursement of government entitlements like NREGA, social security pension, Handicapped, Old Age Pension etc of any Central or State Government institution/entity, using Aadhaar authentication service of UIDAI. This system is based on demographic and biometric/iris information of an individual, which reduces the threat of any fraud or non-genuine activity. Aadhaar facilitate anytime, anywhere, anyhow authentication for the citizen/customer. This service is currently working on windows and Android based Laptop/Desktop/Mobile phones. Source: https://www.csc.gov.in/digipay

IRCTC CONNECT

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IRCTC CONNECT In order to cater to the growing demand of passengers to make the ticketing application more user-friendly and faster, IRCTC Connect was developed. The new app with several add-on features is based on the next generation e-ticketing system. Synchronised with the ticketing website, the app facilitates search and book train tickets, check existing reservations or cancel them, and get upcoming journey alerts Website. https://www.irctc.co.in/eticketing/loginHome.jsf

MEGHRAJ- Government of India Cloud

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MEGHRAJ In order to utilise and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious initiative - "GI Cloud" which has been named as 'MeghRaj'. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications.  https://cloud.gov.in

e-Kranti

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e-Kranti  : National e-Governance Plan 2.0: The national level e-Governance programme called National e-Governance Plan was initiated in 2006. There were 31 Mission Mode Projects under National e-Governance Plan covering a wide range of domains, viz. agriculture, land records, health, education, passports, police, courts, municipalities, commercial taxes, treasuries etc. 24 Mission Mode Projects have been implemented and started delivering either full or partial range of envisaged services. . Considering the shortcomings in National e-Governance Plan that included lack of integration amongst Government applications and databases, low degree of government process reengineering, scope for leveraging emerging technologies like mobile, cloud…etc, Government of India has approved the e-Kranti programme recently with the vision of “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”. All new and on-going eGovernance projects as well as the existing projects, which are being revamped

MOBILE SEVA APP STORE

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MOBILE SEVA APP STORE A mobile applications store (m-AppStore) has been created to facilitate the process of development and deployment of suitable mobile applications for delivery of public services through mobile devices. The m-AppStore store is integrated with the MSDG and it shall use the MSDG infrastructure for deployment of such applications. The m-AppStore is based on service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable. Website. https://apps.mgov.gov.in/index.jsp