How Aadhaar's Massive ID Project Could Transform The Indian Banking Industry. India’s unique biometric identification project, Aadhaar, is gaining traction--and that's a boon for the country's banking industry. In a recent study the economists Arun Sundararajan (of NYU’s Stern school) and Ravi Bapna (of Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota) noted that the program has been successful in enrolling Indians who didn’t have any form of ID at all. These newly registered Indians have until now been excluded from banking services, government aid, and numerous other facilities that demanded identification. When the study was published this spring, roughly a sixth of the nation had been enrolled. Based on how enrollments were going at last count, the two economists estimate that 25 percent of Indians will be enrolled by the end of 2012. (They are currently revising that estimate.)
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Economie. Start ups. India uses degrading forensic tests on rape victims. The search engine Bing would like to salute the heroic women of 2013. Malala Yousafzai, who “stood up to educate us all.” Margaret Thatcher, for “blazing a trail.” Adrianne Haslet-David, for “vowing to dance again” after she lost a foot in the Boston bombing. Diana Nyad, who “swam a really long way” (just kidding, who “persevered”).
In its new commercial, which premiered during the Golden Globes Sunday night, Bing flashes images of these women, as well as of Gabrielle Giffords, Janet Yellen, Antoinette Tuff, Angela Merkel, Edith Windsor, Deb Cohan, and female troops, while girl-power anthemist Sara Bareilles sings “I wanna see you be brave” in the background. The chancellor of Germany and a Pakistani teen activist are strange bedfellows, perhaps, but companies can cast a wide net when their only criteria for inclusion are “female” and “famous.” Perhaps, as the smaller and more social search engine in a world dominated by Google, Bing identifies with the female plight, such as it is.
INDE • "Hollande a beaucoup à faire vis-à-vis des Indiens" Le nouveau président devra faire oublier Nicolas Sarkozy à l'Inde. Une tache difficile, selon la correspondante du quotidien The Hindu en France. Car le sortant avait su gagner la confiance de New Delhi. 6 mai 2012 | Partager : Le résultat tout jute connu, Vaiju Naravane a filé rédiger un nouvel article pour son quotidien, après avoir déjà envoyé en début de soirée un reportage d'ambiance nourri de ses passages dans des bureaux de vote et aux QG de campagne de Nicolas Sarkozy et de François Hollande.
Le défi de ce second "papier" ? "Détailler les interrogations sur le financement du programme du nouveau président ; expliquer que s'il y a eu rejet de Nicolas Sarkozy, c'est parce qu'il irrite les Français et que ceux-ci ne veulent pas regarder son bilan qui est plutôt bon sur la crise, la guerre en Géorgie... La journaliste s'est aussi attachée à démentir la réputation de "milk pudding" (traduction de Flanby) de François Hollande. Asian Tour - India - Millee. India's Capital City Using Facebook to Nab Reckless Drivers. In yet another example of how futuristic crime fighting tools are coming sooner than we could've imagined, police in India's capital city have started using Facebook and crowdsourcing to catch traffic violators. New Delhi is the one of the world's largest and most dense metropolises, with traffic horrendous enough to make a Manhattan rush hour feel like a breezy countryside drive. Roads and highways are often clogged, according to the New York Times, and just 5,000 traffic cops patrol a city of 12 million people and 6.5 million vehicles.
Delhi turned to social networking to mitigate the overwhelming congestion. In June, traffic officers launched their own Facebook page and appealed to concerned citizens for help. Soon, some 18,000 had joined, posting close to 3,000 photographs and videos of traffic violations ranging from helmet-less bikers to cell-phone-wielding drivers. The police have used these uploads to issue more than 600 tickets so far. India develops world's cheapest laptop at $35. NEW DELHI Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:43pm BST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has come up with the world's cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing device that costs $35.
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production. "We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything," he told a news conference. He said the touchscreen gadget was packed with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement. The device was developed by research teams at India's premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. Indian Tablet Gets TV Demo But Is Still Hard to Believe.
If it's on TV, it must be true, right? When India's plans for an ultra-cheap tablet PC, destined to transform education in the nation, surfaced several weeks back the entire world was skeptical. The authorities have just made another attempt to show off the product, and quell global accusations of disbelief.
It hasn't worked. Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal notes that Sibal promised to have one million of the devices in Indian colleges and universities by 2011 at that highly publicized $35 price, TechRadar reports. Sibal even underlined plans to bring the price down to $10 and noted that open-sourced education software has already been developed for the machine in India. The only issue the demonstrators apparently had with the unit was its poor-performing resistive touchscreen--no match for speedy capacitative screens found on the iPad and smartphones, which enables multi-touch tech at fast response speeds.
Which we still think is impossible.