digitalization – Itisaras

Digital India 2.0: Rethinking Healthcare

October 27, 2020February 17, 2021 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments AADHAR, advantage, animal-care, ASHA, citizens, Citizenship, coronavirus, COVID-19, democracy, dependent, digital health, Digital India, digitalization, disadvantage, divine, electronic, environment, equipment, Government, healthy, humanity, initiative, laboratory, medicines, New normal, NHIN, Online, PAN, pandemic, Passport, people, perspective, pharmacy, planet, policies, population, Power, Precautions, project, Ration card, responsibility, safeguard, self-care, solution, technology, uncertain, unique, vaccine, virtual, warriors, work from home

The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a whole lot of rules and protocols on people to maintain safety and avoid the spread of the virus. Makes one think – in spite of all advancements and progress we have made so far, were we truly prepared for something like this?

Polity Society

Gaps in Virtual Teaching

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments academics, administration, assessments, Catch-22, CBSE, challenge, classroom, content creators, content developers, Corona Virus, Coursera, COVID-19, Development, digitalization, disability, e-material, education, exams, experience, futuristic, helicopter parenting, incommunicado, indispensable, institutions, interference, Internet, invasion, knowledge, learning, link, malpractise, medium, ministry, online classes, online school, online teaching, pandemic, personality, planning, primary, privilege, repository, reputation, responsibility, secondary, skills, teachers, teaching, traditional, Udemy, UGC, virtual, Virtual teaching

Learning and gaining knowledge these days no more remains limited to the four walls of an institution or a classroom. With digitalization, spreading fast these have become a thing of the past, and more so due to ongoing pandemic. Moving ahead head first into the future is one thing, but should we not pause and consider if everyone is reaping the benefits of it?

Polity

Is the Future Here?

August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 Shriya Tandon 0 Comments accessible, Change, citizen, computerization, consideration, conundrum, Corona Virus, court, court of law, COVID-19, demand, democracy, dependant, determination, digital justice, digitalization, ecological, future, illiterate, Internet, investment, Judiciary, Lockdown, nation, Online, optimistic, outreach, pandemic, past, predicament, present, procedure, process, reality, reliable, revolutionary, social-distancing, transparent, venture

The ongoing pandemic has really taken things for a spin. Thoughts of the future are now becoming the need of the hour and there are debates on the pros and cons of it. From Virtual Darshan and donations, things are now moving on to justice being delivered digitally. It was only a matter of time.

Society

Online Darshan during COVID-19 Pandemic

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 Tanya Mittal 7 Comments aarti, artificial intelligence, astrologers, Augmented reality, Bhajans, Bhakt, bitcoin, Church, corona, Corona Virus, COVID-19, cyber crime, daan, dakshina, darsgan, deity, devotee, digital, digitalization, e-Puja, fraud, God, gurudwara, kirtan, langar, Lockdown, mosque, online payment, Pandit, Pilgrimage, Religion, scam, shraadh, shraddhanjali, skype, social distancing, temple, temples, video calling, Virtual Darshan, Virtual reality, virus, Worship, zoom

Never had we ever imagined that we would one day face a situation wherein visiting temples virtually would actually become a reality. Sometimes, things do take a drastic turn and for all of us this year in 2020, the Corona Virus Pandemic has been that change giving us many new “Normals”. Only time will tell how this will shape our lives in the future.