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Industry News: Information and Communications
With 5G, the attack surface will be much wideredit
By Sudhir Chaudhary
Digital transformation is real and widespread across industry verticals. However, with this transformation comes digital risk, and the conversation has now shifted from just cybersecurity to digital risk, making our proposition in the market, stronger, stress two senior executives at US technology firm, RSA Security George Lee, vicepresident, APJ, RSA Security and Rajnish Gupta, regional director, RSA Security, India.
5GCyberSecurityDigital TransformationThe Crucial role of Cyber security and Artificial Intelligence (AI)edit
Despite the fact that AI can be useful in the cybersecurity space, for the most part, its not AI that is driving these solutions. As a rule, trained machine learning and AI are terms that get confounded. Where AI and machine learning differ in their capacity to think without legitimate programming. Security organizations utilize machine learning to write complex algorithms for these technologies to best identify security breaches.
AICyberSecuritySmart automation can contribute to company bottomline through energy efficiencyedit
The emergence of Smart Automation and Internet of Things technologies present cost efficient options to tame this wastage and to capture its benefits to the company bottom line in a transparent and data driven manner. These options often have paybacks well under 1224 months in most circumstances, and work as retrofits to existing electrical assets thereby avoiding the expensive capital replacement.
AutomationEnergy efficiencyIoTsmart devicesImportance of Artificial Intelligence in making lending easier and profitableedit
Over the year, evolution in global technologies has made people move forward from fixed phones to mobile phones. Today, every sector is readily and rapidly adapting the Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the fastpaced modern industries, AI is becoming an integral part of business operations.
AIBFSI2020 predictions for the Indian IT Industryedit
Industrial Robotics a strong use case in ERP Automotive is one of the leading verticals for industrial robotics and recently demand has been driven by tier 1/ tier 2 suppliers. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are pushing suppliers to invest in robotics to ensure better quality and faster production. Collaborative robots (CoBots) allow sharing heavy payloads and improve cycle times achieving an optimal degree of automation.
AutomotiveITRPA2020 cybersecurity policy has to enable global collaborationedit
The rapid expansion of digital penetration in India brings with it the need to strengthen cyber security. Its clear that India faces expanded and more potent cyber threats. Its clear that India faces expanded and more potent cyber threats.
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Was 2019 a year of cheer for electric vehicle industry in Indiaedit
The year began with bang for EV players with the governments approval for Rs 10,000 crore programme under the FAME II scheme for promotion of electric and hybrid vehicles in the month of February.
e-mobilityEVFAME IIKSRTC faces setback from e-busesedit
Kochi: KSRTC has purchased e-buses as a revolutionary movement to revamp the sector. But now, theses buses are a burden for KSRTC. At present, e-buses are operating service in the pilot phase of the project. It was introduced as an eco friendly and zero sound pollution vehicle.
e-busesEV PolicyFuture of MobilityA new analysis from GMI Research expects the India Electric Vehicle Battery Market to reach USD 963 million in 2026edit
With the growing concern of the environment, the government of India is taking the initiative to reduce carbon emission by providing incentives on the purchase of electric vehicles for a commercial purpose is creating demand for the electric vehicle battery market. In addition, an increase in the production of EV battery and standardizing battery components will further drive the market growth during the forecast period.
e-mobilityEV BatteryFuture of Mobility2019: A Year of Positive Momentum for Indias EV Sectoredit
By Nitin Thomas Prasad
A key announcement came in June by the National Institute of Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the governments think tank, which charted its ambitious plan to mandate electric vehicles by 2030.This was met by strong opposition by automobile manufacturers who argued that such a move would spell doom for the domestic industry and jobs.
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Weak spots of the gig worldedit
The meteoric benefits of the gig workforce often overshadow what goes behind the scene; Its time to know the risks too. Working as a Process Manager in a manufacturing plant for the last 10 years has made Ravindra a subject matter expert in his domain. He has been a consistent performer for the last five years in the same company.
Future of WorkGig EconomyOver 50% Job Seekers consider Enhancing Knowledge & Skills as a top priorityedit
With such a small percentage (2.62%) of highly agile learners as compared with low learning agility (25%), not only will the private sector need to come up with creative & effective ways of quickly upskilling or reskilling their currently employed talent, but also the policymakers will have to look at new education methods to bridge the gap and reverse this trend.
Future of JobsHiringReskillingUpskillingFor 2 years from 2014, Indian graduates became more employable. Then their growth stagnatededit
The report looks at the readiness of graduates for newage jobs, job types and the skills employers are seeking in prospective employees. It has been prepared by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), Confederation of Indian Industry, along with private partners Wheebox and PeopleStrong.
employabilityFuture of JobsEmpowering India Digitally Through Connected Platformsedit
MeitY and NASSCOM have jointly prepared a Detailed Project Report (DPR) on Reskilling/Upskilling of IT professionals, titled Future skills PRIME (Programme for Reskilling/Upskilling of IT Manpower for Employability) to reskill/upskill 4.12 lakh candidates over a duration of 3 (three) years in 10 Emerging Technologies Artificial Intelligence, Internet of things, Additive Manufacturing/ 3D Printing, Big Data Analytics Robotic Process Automation, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Blockchain, Virtual Reality.
MeitYNASSCOMReskillingUpskillingAIs latest victim is here: Call centre jobsedit
For quite some time now there has been a sense of fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will wipe certain jobs and skill sets. That the threat of AI is real isn’t a fallacy but still not an acute reality. However, this piece of news does add a lot of credence to the threat of AI.
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Global rankings of Indian varsities need improvementedit
She said that with more number of students seek admission in overseas universities and more graduates joining the global workforce, Internationalisation of Higher Education has become a necessity as well as the reality of the present time.
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