Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
In the face of climate change adversities, which can be an impediment to the sustainable growth of economy, India can benefit from a low carbon growth trajectory to achieve its objectives for economic development and mitigation of climate change. As one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the …
The report shows that the potential of leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) to develop the private sector is far from fully exploited. It finds that many national and donor strategies related to PSD currently fail to take adequate account of the ICT potential, which has greatly expanded thanks to …
This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation …
This report focuses on a detailed IT strategy for PDS including the institutional structures and processes required for effective use of IT in PDS as well as an implementable solution of direct transfer of subsidies on food and kerosene to intended beneficiaries. While this Report does not dwell into the …
The effective use and application of ICT/ICM for AR4D and its transformation require strong support by policy makers, ICT experts, scientists and other stakeholder groups to implement proper ICM strategies in their respective institutions for better results for the investments. This report assesses the status of ICT/ICM in AR4D in …
Madhya Pradesh has opted for the technologically most sophisticated—and costliest—method for revamping its public distribution system (PDS). It is one of a handful of states that is trying to ensure that subsidised food reaches the segment it is meant for, the poorest of the population or those below the poverty …
New Delhi: Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board S P Gautam sold a patent he held privately on a technology to the apex authority on a revenue sharing basis and then passed a directive in his official capacity asking the leather industry to buy the expensive and untested know-how. …
The 2011 edition of the annual CDP Global 500 report examines the carbon reduction activities at the world’s largest public corporations. Low carbon growth is now widely accepted as fundamental to generating long term shareholder value, avoiding dangerous climate change and helping the global economy recover from recent turmoil. It …
With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September 2010 to take stock of progress made thus far. Despite significant setbacks owing to the 2008-2009 …
KOLKATA, 25 AUG: The European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC), an agency co-funded by the European Union (EU) for promoting clean technologies in India, will facilitate establishing 30 projects in the country in the near future. "The EBTC has around 25 to 30 projects in the pipeline which will come …
The vision statement for Kerala's IT policy is to create a "Knowledge based economy with Global Opportunities" and position "IT@Kerala" as the most preferred IT/ITES investment destination in India and to attract investment in ICT.
Geodesic is a leading provider of content, communication and collaboration solutions to the government, enterprise and retail segments. Its product GeoAmida won the Nasscom social innovation award for 2010.
A study exploring the business case and carbon emissions reduction potential of using cloud computing as part of the business IT estate. https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/WhatWeDo/Pages/Cloud-Computing.aspx
India will leverage the global concerns over food security to seek technological assistance from the developed world to raise farm productivity in the developing countries at the ongoing meeting of agriculture ministers of G-20 nations in Paris. The G20 meet in Paris will focus on various hedges against price instability …
The U.S. Energy Department offered on Friday a $150 million conditional loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies Inc to support development of the company's solar wafer technology. The company's technology could lower the cost of manufacturing solar wafers by about 50 percent, the DOE said in a statement. Solar wafers are …
Kashmir has seen the sharpest decline in the female population Blaming the latest technology and unscrupulous doctors for the declining sex ratio, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said the situation was
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh made it clear that private corporate sector should not look up to the government for innovations in technology to transit towards green economy. Addressing Indian business leaders at the CII Conference on
This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion. Behind each of these, slow-burn crises smoulder: creeping and insidious climate change, growing inequality, chronic hunger and vulnerability, the erosion of our natural resources.
