Indian Digital Research Articles

A Study of Ethical Implications of AI Tools Enhancing User Conveniences in the Indian Digital Landscape

A Study of Ethical Implications of AI Tools Enhancing User Conveniences in the Indian Digital Landscape

Analytical Study to Develop Effective Model for Indian E-retailers and Explore Ideas and Strategies to Eliminate Monopoly and Duopoly from the Indian Digital Market

Analytical Study to Develop Effective Model for Indian E-retailers and Explore Ideas and Strategies to Eliminate Monopoly and Duopoly from the Indian Digital Market

Indian Digital Health Information Systems: Initiatives and Opportunities with Socio-economic Perspective

"Digital technologies have emerged as indispensable tools in designing and developing sophisticated healthcare systems. In today’s world, human society is deeply intertwined with digital technologies and computing. Advancements in communication and technology have greatly enhanced global connectivity among people and stakeholders. Organisations and institutions across various sectors, including healthcare and medicine, increasingly embrace technology. Governments worldwide are actively promoting the integration of IT and computing into healthcare and medical systems. Utilising different technologies and computing subfields has developed advanced, intelligent, and more efficient healthcare services. Digital healthcare is pivotal in promoting enhanced well-being for individuals of all ages, irrespective of location. To advance healthcare infrastructure, national, state, or regional digital health initiatives have been implemented with comprehensive strategies encompassing financial, organisational, human, and technological resources. InIndia, several initiatives have been launched in the healthcare sector, focusing on technology and computing. This paper explores various aspects of technology and computing in healthcare, providing insights into digital healthcare informatics’s existing, current, and future scenarios. It examines adopted and potential strategies to enhance healthcare delivery through integrating digital technologies and computing systems. This paper is a conceptual works and its includes the detailed study of the secondary data source collected from different government websites and digital platforms and then analyzing these qualitative and quantitative data to understand the issues related to digital healthcare system."

Towards Acknowledgement and Accreditation of Digital Labour in Digital Humanities: A Case Study from Emerging Indian Digital Humanities Projects

Digital labour (DL) in the context of digital humanities (DH) broadly comprises the process of data collection, curation, analysis, and visualization, leading to the creation of a final project. DL, when analyzed from an Indian DH perspective, consists of humanities scholars acquiring additional technical knowledge required for the research, finding suitable resources (technical and otherwise), infrastructures, and collaborating with other disciplines, etc. This DL, together with manual labour (ML) of writing about outcomes (Anderson et al. 2016), is complicated and time-consuming for DH scholars. Yet DL gets recognized due to the nascent state of DH in the subcontinent. Despite the evident DL involved in the creation and successful proliferation of DH projects, it is seldom addressed in academic scholarship (Anderson et al. 2016) and even more rarely in Indian DH academia. The lack of proper infrastructure (Anderson et al. 2016) and deficiency in technical knowledge (Thangavel and Menon 2020) have resulted in a greater DL among the DH practitioners in India when compared to their peers elsewhere, yet it has gone unrecognized, given the lack of literature and research on DL in Indian DH. The existing resistance in humanities towards accommodating the new approaches of DH (Greetham 2012) has made DL manifold. In an effort to recognize DL in DH, this paper attempts a definition of DL in DH, especially in the Indian context, followed by a broad classification of digital labourers (DLers) in DH in India. The paper utilizes a case study of selected DH projects in India to understand the gaps in recognizing the DLers and DL in Indian DH projects, especially the DL of students and researchers. The findings from the case study further lead to the proposal of a possible framework to address the emergence and evolving nature of DL in DH, as well as to compensate for the same appropriately.   Le travail numérique (TN) dans le contexte des humanités numériques (HN) comprend largement le processus de collecte, de conservation, d'analyse et de visualisation des données, menant à la création d'un projet final. Lorsqu'il est analysé du point de vue des HN indiennes, le travail numérique consiste pour les chercheurs en sciences humaines à acquérir des connaissances techniques supplémentaires nécessaires à la recherche, à trouver des ressources appropriées (techniques et autres), des infrastructures et à collaborer avec d'autres disciplines, etc. Ce TN, ainsi que le travail manuel (TM) de rédaction des résultats (Anderson et al. 2016), est compliqué et prend du temps pour les chercheurs en HN. Pourtant, le TN est reconnu en raison de l'état naissant des HN dans le sous-continent. Malgré l'implication évidente du TN dans la création et la prolifération réussie des projets d'humanités numériques, il est rarement abordé dans les travaux universitaires (Anderson et al. 2016) et encore plus rarement dans les universités indiennes spécialisées dans les HN. Le manque d'infrastructures appropriées (Anderson et al. 2016) et les lacunes en matière de connaissances techniques (Thangavel et Menon 2020) ont entraîné une plus grande TN parmi les praticiens des HN en Inde par rapport à leurs pairs ailleurs, mais cela n'a pas été reconnu, étant donné le manque de littérature et de recherche sur le TN dans le domaine des HN en Inde. La résistance existante dans les sciences humaines à l'égard de l'adaptation aux nouvelles approches de HN (Greetham 2012) a multiplié les TN. Dans un effort pour reconnaître les TN au sein des HN, cet article tente de définir les TN pour les HN, en particulier dans le contexte indien, suivi d'une classification générale des travailleurs numériques (en anglais "digital labourers") dans les HN en Inde. L'article utilise une étude de cas de projets HN sélectionnés en Inde pour comprendre les lacunes dans la reconnaissance des travailleurs numériques et des TN dans les projets HN indiens, en particulier les TN des étudiants et des chercheurs. Les résultats de l'étude de cas conduisent en outre à la proposition d'un cadre possible pour aborder l'émergence et la nature évolutive des TN dans HN, ainsi que pour compenser ces mêmes TN de manière appropriée.  

A Case Study on The Rise and Downfall of Paytm and its Impact in Indian Digital Payment service.

• After Demonetization, the Role of the Banking sector provided an easier way of digital payment, the concept of UPI ensured a significant and cost-effective way of transferring money from one person to another. Mobile phones, Technological innovations, and In-ternet communications provided paperless Transactions. To provide an effective Pay-ment Mechanism NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India) has been established for the control of UPI operations in India. The Government of India under The Ministry of Fi-nance ensures the Potential Contribution to the Digital economy. This Book chapter shall explain the Rise and Downfall of Paytm and Its Subsidiary Paytm Payments Bank and Its Impact in India.

An Empirical study of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) in Indian Digital Payment System

An Empirical study of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) in Indian Digital Payment System

Benchmarking the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 against data protection frameworks in Singapore, the EU, US and Australia

This paper benchmarks the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 in comparison to its global counterparts and identifies ambiguities, defects and issues with the new law that might complicate compliance by global businesses. The paper suggests reforms and approaches based on learnings from best practices under data protection laws in the EU, Singapore, the USA and Australia.

A comprehensive analysis of the advances in Indian Digital Agricultural architecture

ICT-based interventions such as smart farming and precision agriculture are helping to improve the output of traditional agricultural systems and drive them toward sustainability. Data-driven technologies like remote sensing, smart sensors, and IoT-based devices constructed over AI/ML algorithms have become a fundamental aspect of agriculture that assists farmers with critical decision-making. This revolution is strengthening the farmers in terms of farm management by improving crop yield, pest control, soil health, etc. in real-time. We have thoroughly reviewed the digital adoption in terms of insights into the Indian agriculture sector and presented a comprehensive account of major ICT initiatives undertaken followed by a redundancy analysis as well as its influence on the sector. Unfortunately, while being a significant agrarian country, India's adoption of digital solutions is still in its infancy, as apparent from a close look at important FMIS and key components of recognized solutions used internationally. We found 28 FMIS solutions that are active globally, and have produced a list of 29 local (Indian) applications spread across 23 different agricultural sub-domains. Sadly, a majority among these were not unique and replicated similar features, besides just a few were found to be crop-specific applications. The article is unique in its approach to presenting the tale of digital penetration in the Indian agriculture sector and will be helpful to further Agri-stack vision of India.

Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era

Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era

The Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, viewed from a European Perspective

The Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, viewed from a European Perspective

The Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, viewed from a European Perspective - Executive Summary

The Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, viewed from a European Perspective - Executive Summary

Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression

Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression

Digital Agricultural Knowledge Platform (IDEAL) using KOHA for National Agricultural Research and Education System

Digital libraries are equipped to provide access to multiple contents with potentially infinite number of resources to users. The libraries of the Indian National Agricultural Research and Education System (NARES) mainly the ICAR institutions and Agricultural Universities have a collection of huge literature of immense value available in various print and digital forms. These resources if made available at a single platform will go a long way in facilitating its sharing and minimizing the duplication efforts by the partner libraries. Realizing its importance, a requirement of a national level union catalog was felt to ensure single point access for the valuable information on the vast resources of NARES libraries. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) brought solution to a lot of challenging issues to all facets of the university system and the library is not an exemption. The Indian Digital Ensemble of Agricultural Libraries (IDEAL) is a customized platform for Agricultural Libraries of Indian National Agricultural Research and Education System (NARES) by adopting the KOHA-an open source integrated library management software for their routine operations in all libraries. KOHA is a software platform built on ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) concept to provide hassle free, ready to use based platform for sharing library holdings through a union catalogue as per the international standards. In this catalogue, the information can be shared at a single platform for all the users for example, students, researchers and faculties, extension workers and others. The system also provides search facilities through various parameters example, title, author, subject, number etc. The libraries of the State Agriculture Universities and its constituent colleges (SAUs) and ICAR institutes have been connected at a central server for its routine activities through IDEAL Platform. An online public access catalog (OPAC) of each library has been created, which provides easy and enhanced experience of accessing the library resources 24 × 7 to the users. This has greatly facilitated sharing and access of library resources among the NARES partners.

Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics

Cette recension rend compte de l’ouvrage récent de Gajjala Radhika, professeure en Media et Communication (SMC) et en American Culture Studies (ACS) à la Bowling Green State University en Ohio. Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics explore l’utilisation des médias sociaux numériques par les femmes indiennes installées aux États-Unis ou à l’étranger. L’auteure déploie un regard critique sur les notions, entre autres, d’empowerment, de digital streets et de digital domesticity.

A Study on Impact of GST on Indian Digital Marketing System

At the point when Prime Minister Modi’s government presented the one tax system the advanced marketing area was hit by it like each other industry. The target of this post is to take a gander at the different ways GST has gotten a change the web based marketing industry. The Goods and Service Tax was brought to the market in India from first July 2017 and are an endeavor from the occupant government to bring the country under one tax system. Business analysts accept this extreme change has long-standing consequences for the fund and economy of the nation. The GST will be represented by the Goods and Services tax Council alongside the Finance Ministry of India and is required to redo the system of taxation continued in the nation totally. So here’s a gander at how these GST changes impact the computerized marketing area. In the past tax system, taxation had a falling impact on ensuing stages which toward the end went about as a weight for the end shopper. In Goods and Services Tax, the tax will be imposed on every one of these stages and the risk with respect to the shopper will be diminished as purchasers in numerous phases of the cycle can profit the info credit from the cycle. Dissimilar to the past tax system, the falling impact will no more be required on each stage, so the expense of making an advertisement will unquestionably diminish. Because of information credit, the cost will descend. This advantage would be presently moved to the marketing financial plan of organizations. As per driving money related foundations, input credit system will inevitably prompt organizations spending more on their Advertisement. In the past tax system publicizing cost was considered as a manufacturing cost, exposed to VAT and deals tax and no information credit was accessible to advertisers. Presently in the Goods and Services Tax time, costs acquired under publicizing will be accessible for input credit of 18% on taxes paid on advertisements. As indicated by experts, GST would build the promotion spend oforganizations because of the ease of making an advertisement and therefore the publicizing spend would increment by 10% of about INR 5,000 crore for 2017-18. Hence, the present study made an attempt to point out the major impact of GST on Indian digital marketing system.

Blockchain in India

Blockchain has been the recent talk of the town in the sphere of digital technology which attempts to bring transparency in the wake of an Indian Digital Economy by inducing transparency and cracking on the rampant corruption in Public and Private Sectors by making use of Cryptographic Techniques to make the system hack-proof which is aimed at bringing an upheaval not only in the field of Finance but also other industries like Agriculture, Telecom, Mass Media and Public Sector Undertakings where coupled with contemporary technologies like Internet of Things, Blockchain can do wonders. This paper aims to give a brief view of about Blockchain, the basic ideas that revolve around it and how it can be implemented in a nation like India with over a billion population.

Digi Locker –Indian Digital Locker, How much the youth is actually using it?

Information and Communication Tools (ICT) are a prerequisite these days for ensuring better governance and administration. It not only improves the quality of administration but also facilitates procedures by making it more efficient and user-friendly. Government of India (GOI) has proposed many schemes under the Digital India umbrella; and DigiLocker is one of the flagship schemes initiated to bring a total digital change in the life of citizens of India especially the young citizens who are the future of India. The scheme has an inherent potential to give an opportunity to a large section of population with a paradigm shift for ushering in e-governance. DigiLocker, the Indian Digital Locker, allows an individual to save online and digitally share the documents issued by any government department, educational institute, transport department and other agencies. This research paper empirically calculates if the usage of DigiLocker is dependent on Gender (Male/Female), school background (Private/Government), area in which their college is, type of course (Undergraduate/Professional/Engineering) they are pursuing, year in which they studying (I/ II/ III/ IV year) of the course they are pursuing. The paper further analyzes the documents undergraduate college and engineering students maintain in their DigiLocker, whether DigiLocker documents are accepted in various undergraduate Institutes, if the students find DigiLocker secure or not, and the ease of use of digilocker. And finally, a few suggestions are made to make DigiLocker more usable among the young students that would have a marked change in digitalization scenario of India.

Locating New Literary Practices in Indian Digital Spaces

In this essay, we locate and explore new literary practices and expressions in Indian digital spaces such as SMS novel and social media narratives: poetry, flash fiction, twitterfiction which are not considered as electronic literature in India. The integration of technology and creativity is not a novel phenomenon in Indian literature where one can find the narrative tradition of ancient Indian literature which includes poetical words, paintings, and music, for instance, Pattachitra, Ragamala paintings and Chitra Kavi. Similarly, new literary practices and expressions in the digital environment include literary artefacts such as interfaces, images, audio and videos. These works serve as a gateway to exciting electronic literature in India.

Whether big deals are really big for engineering college libraries?

PurposeLibrary consortia have played a vital role in sharing information resources among participating libraries. In India, engineering college libraries subscribe to many electronic resources through the Indian Digital Library of Engineering Science and Technology (INDEST) consortium. This paper aims to identify the collection development of electronic resources through INDEST to predict the most required and useful model for engineering colleges.Design/methodology/approachThe list of colleges that subscribe to electronic resources through INDEST was studied online and analyzed.FindingsIt is evident that most colleges only subscribed IEL online through INDEST. Some colleges have subscribed to different resources from more than one publisher. The bundles of resources subscribed through INDEST have not fully supported all the courses offered by the institutions. It is revealed that the bibliographical databases for searching the literature in technological sciences were not subscribed to by any colleges participating in INDEST.Originality/valueThe results of this study are useful for engineering college libraries to develop the collection of online journals in the digital era.

Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas

Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic encounter on their own blogs and employing performative writing that simulates the blogsphere, the authors look at the interplay of codes of identity through the employment of themes, language, symbols, and cultural influences in their writing. Examining the themes emerging from the specific blogs they study, the authors ask how power is shifted and relayered in these articulations and what the inviting interactional features of their writer-audience communities are that allow for certain kinds of self-expression while also shaping their performance of sexuality in these spaces.