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Industry News: Information and Communications
A new acronym for the Indian IT enterprise: RIDEedit
Most of us in the business world are stuck in the rut of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly deadlines and planning cycles. For the privileged few who are freed of these short cycles and are responsible for an organization’s strategy, it is the future that beckons. However, that almost everything we seek to do in the digital world has been done before, all we need to know is where to look.
Indian IT IndustryView: As machines turn smarter with AI, leaders need to be more humanedit
“Is digital out and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in?” Our answer is AI doesn’t replace digital technology but allows organisations to derive higher value from their digital and non-digital assets. AI helps organisations move towards a datadriven, customer-centric and operationally efficient culture.
Artificial IntelligenceTOP TRENDS AND EXPECTATIONS FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN 2019edit
AI has shown immense potential to make our lives much easier, a fact which does not stop in our homes, as businesses constantly come up with new ways to use AI to engage with customers, make processes easier and pull revenues to new highs. The effectiveness and popularity of AI-powered chatbots in recent years has catapulted an increased interest in how artificial intelligence is deployed to improve the results of ad campaigns.
Artificial IntelligenceIndustry News: Future of Mobility
MoU signed on electric vehicle policy for three citiesedit
In line with the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020, the state government has recognised the need for the transition to EVs and formulated the Kerala Electric Vehicle Policy.
Electric VehiclesFortum India and Business Sweden launch EV innovation challengeedit
This challenge aims to accelerate electrification of three wheelers in India through jointly developing a battery swap system specially tailored for light electric vehicles (LEVs) in the country. The partners said that taking LEV battery swapping to the next level requires designing digital infrastructure and developing hardware to support a sustainable business model.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Education
UGC holds back approval for 19 additions proposed for Institute of Eminence statusedit
Three days after the government announced that 19 more institutes have been recommended for the Institute of Eminence status by an expert panel, the University Grants Commission on Monday curiously held back approval for the same at a meeting in New Delhi.
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Solar rooftop surges but Indian households not adopting it yet; here’s whyedit
Households accounted just for about 9% of the total rooftop solar capacity recorded this year as compared with commercial and industrial installation consumer segment that dominated with a 70% share.
Solar RooftopIndia has renewable energy projects of 46,500 Mw capacity in the pipelineedit
India currently has renewable energy projects of 46,500 Megawatt (Mw) capacity in the pipeline for capacity addition. This includes projects which are currently under construction and those likely to be offered for bidding soon.
ET EnergyWorldIndia to bid 80 Gw of solar and wind energy projects by 2020edit
India has declared the trajectory of bidding 60 gigawatt (GW) capacity of solar energy and 20 GW capacity of wind energy by March 2020, leaving two years time for execution of projects, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said today.
Solar and Wind EnergySwitch to clean energy and save $500 mln, aid agencies toldedit
Humanitarian agencies spent about five percent of their funds – or an estimated $1.2 billion – on diesel last year, and could save $517 million each year by using cleaner energy sources such as solar power, it said.
Clean EnergyIndia’s renewable energy performance hailed in new global reportedit
India’s performance in the renewable energy sector has been hailed in a new global report on climate change but it cautioned against the country’s move to build new coal-fired power plants, saying that may pose a risk of offsetting positive developments it has made in the field of green energy.
Renewable Energy