The UNICEF's report titled State of the World's Children 2017: Children in a digital world highlights how the internet in India is still a gender-based privilege, a ‘male bastion’ or ‘male preserve.’
The Google Safe Browsing team has expanded enforcement of Google’s Unwanted Policy to further tamp down on unwanted and harmful mobile behaviours on Android.
The country’s telecom authority lay down the facts clear on the table in bold: “The internet is an ‘open platform’,” and no internet service providers can engage in treating any content on this public platform with discrimination.
In a move to bridge this gap and make internet accessible to the strata of society that usually is the last to get any benefits, the government has decided to make Wi-Fi available across the nation by setting up over 7.5 lakh public-internet hotspots by the end of 2018.
“It was during my stint in the U.S. that I realised that while I remembered the theoretical concepts, and had the requisite marks, my knowledge and sense of application of many theories were nearly non-existent.”