January 24, 2019

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Industry News: Information and Communications

What is Industry 4.0, why it offers huge opportunity for India?edit

Financial Express

The manufacturers get enhanced opportunity to optimise their operations fast and much efficiently by knowing what exactly needs focus. Use of smart machines and technologies, by using more data, would help the factories and production units to turn into more efficient and productive and less wasteful, the experts say.

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Embracing Industry 4.0edit

Business Today

Companies in India are taking baby steps with the latest in smart manufacturing as sensors, cobots and software take charge of factory floors.Smart Manufacturing
IT roadmap for blockchain technology in 2019edit

Computer World

2019 will be the year companies when work together towards deriving a deeper potential that blockchain has to offer across industry applications, according to technology leaders.

Blockchain
HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT FROM CYBER SECURITY DRIFTS IN 2019edit

Analytics Insight

Technologies and innovations which didn’t even exist a decade ago, have now strengthened their bedrock in industry. Every year serves something fresh and novel to the table. Technological advancement and improvisation have become a routine of each individual’s life that it does not feature surprise element anymore.

CyberSecurity
The Future with Internet of Things (IOT)edit

CIOL

IoT can present ample opportunities for businesses. Allowing them to tread the path of workflow automation and optimization, IoT can offer a plethora of possibilities to minimize human efforts. With IoT, human intervention concerning both technical and manual operations can be cut down by a large extent.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Automakers seek Tamil Nadu government support to boost usage of electric vehiclesedit

New Indian Express

Electric Vehicles may be the latest trend but strong governmental support is needed, in terms of policy making, to ensure smooth transition from conventional cars to cleaner transport systems, opined manufacturers.

Electric Vehicles
Let’s stay proactive, make India the EV capitaledit

Deccan Chronicle

Electric vehicles will definitely make an impact on air pollution. They may not, however, reduce traffic congestion, which will continue irrespective of whether automobiles are fuel-based or electric. Air pollution from idling and slow moving traffic, however, can be reduced significantly through EVs.

Electric Vehicles
‘Amp’le reasons to go electric, Bengaluruedit

Deccan Chronicle

Air pollution is a growing concern and Bengaluru is determined not to follow in the footsteps of the capital city. BMTC is on its way to adding electric vehcles to its fleet – a welcome move. BESCOM is likely to add 11 additional charging points across the city, plans are underway to provide charging points along the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway. Uninterrupted supply and the availability of charging stations are priorities but it’s time also for renewed focus on non-motorised forms of transport and the infrastructure (pavements and cycling lanes) required to sustain them.

Electric Vehicles

Industry News: Future of Work

Robot era: Keep humans in good jobs — urges ILO commissionedit

Deccan Chronicle

The “Global Commission on the Future of Work”, co-chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, said in a report that governments, employers and unions needed to adapt to revolutionary changes in the world of work.

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DATA STORY | Inability to rapidly test technology is the greatest barrier to PM Modi’s vision of Digital Indiaedit

Money Control 

With the pace at which the nature of jobs is changing owing to advances in technology, Indian workers will require reskilling by 2022 to meet the talent demands of the future. On an average, they will each require an extra 100 days of learning, according to The Future of Jobs 2018 by the WEF.

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Industry News: Education

Indian university VC calls for internationalisation of higher education in Davosedit

Business Standard

The future of higher education depends on internationalisation of public and private universities and great institutions worldwide have a direct relationship with the development of economy and society.

Higher EducationInternationalisation
Bringing back logic into educationedit

New Indian Express

Irrespective of the employability skills imparted, future education models have to cultivate an ability in the citizen to ask whether the information appearing before them is true or not, and whether any data presented as fact has gone through necessary scrutiny.

Education
Transformational need for higher educationedit

Daily Excelsior

India is still in the category of developing nations because of her slow progress and insignificant advancement in higher education. Research is the most important tool for socio-economic progress. Very insignificant of national income is allocated for higher educational teaching and research. Education budget is much smaller than that of resource allocation for defence and security.

Higher Education

Industry News: Skilling

HR trends you need to take seriously in 2019edit

India Today

HR trend that is likely to be carried forward to the next few years is the trend began by companies to enhance people’s skills. The trend of creating academies which began in 2018 will continue to grow in the years ahead because it allows companies to train a workforce that is employable by them.

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