Monday, June 29, 2015

Digital India Week

1st July 2015 to 7th July 2015

Digital India Week will be inaugurated on 1st July 2015 at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM by Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri. Narendra Modiji.

The first Supercomputer of India PARAM 8000 (made by C-DAC) was launched on July 01, 1991. This date therefore represents a major milestone in the history of Advanced Computing in India.
C-DAC products such as e-Basta and e-Sign will also be launched during the inauguration of Digital India Week.
  • e-Basta: under Digital India initiative, the Government haslaunched a platform that extends may help Indian school students tremendously.Aptly called eBasta (Bastameans school bag in Hindi), this new platform was unveiled today by theGovernment that will provide digital and eBook versions of school books andother study material to school students through-out India.
  • e-Sign: It provides an on-line service to citizens for instant signing of their documents securely in a legally acceptable form.
C-DAC Centres are also carrying out activities which include in-house awareness campaign, media briefing, presentation and exhibition of various products, visits to C-DAC by school children and other scientific institutions for appraising themselves about various R&D being carried out in centres. 

Digital India Week activities of C-DAC centresFor more 3    
Digital India Week Launching of Applications by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India.
Watch live telecast on DD India & DD News at 4:00 PM
Webcast Link : http://webcast.gov.in/digitalindia/ & http://www.youtube.com/PMOfficeIndia
Important links:
More information at deity.gov.in »