Tag: technology
IIT Madras actively pursues corporate tie-ups for tech-driven CSR
The potential for science and technology to work in tandem with CSR for the greater cause of nation-building is limitless. Working towards the goal...
World Telecommunication Day: Role of Telecom in Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
17th May is observed as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day across the world every year to highlight the importance of telecommunication. This day...
Tech-driven Business Trends of 2021
As companies adjust to a “new normal,” the role of technology could not be bigger. If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us anything, it...
Salesforce-Siemens collab bringing touchless tech to offices
Salesforce and Siemens have announced a strategic partnership to develop a new workplace technology suite that will support businesses globally to safely reopen and...
Will 4IR Technologies Threaten Businesses?
More than 50% of the world’s population is now online; roughly one million more people join the internet each day. Fourth Industrial Revolution or...
Vikram Sarabhai is the kind of role model we need right now
As the Akshay Kumar-starrer Mission Mangal (about ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission) makes a run at the theatres and Google honours Vikram Sarabhai's 100th birthday...
Is 3D printing really eco-friendly?
3D printing has been hailed as the catalyst for the next industrial revolution and the “democratisation of manufacturing”, being viewed as having the capacity...
Bridging the digital finance gender gap
One of the most promising ways to close the stubbornly persisting gender divide is technology. While inclusion is growing for everyone, women tend to...
CSR: Potential Positive Applications of Synthetic Biology
Science and technology have made leaps of progress in the field of biotechnology. The power of technology is such, that scientists can modify microorganisms...
CSR: This 22-year-old innovator conserved 200 billion litres of water
In 2018, a report by NITI Aayog stated that India was facing the worst water crisis in history. Over 60% of the country is...
UN leads new united push on green tech solutions
The UN, tech giants, and the policy, finance and science communities today teamed up to launch major new pushes on using cutting-edge technology to...
Instagram backlash and the social media void
August 2018 saw the launch by New York-based Village Marketing of the first Instagram-centric apartment. The 2,400-square-foot SoHo space, which is decked out with...
