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Free ChatGPT Plus For Everyone? Malta Just Became The First Country To Do It
Malta has partnered with OpenAI to provide a free one-year ChatGPT Plus subscription to all citizens and residents aged 14+ who complete a digital literacy course.
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India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs Partners with Meta on Digital Consumer Protection Initiative
India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Meta have come together to launch a consumer awareness campaign called "Be an Empowered Consumer". The initiative, unveiled by Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan aims to enhance digital literacy and protection for online consumers.
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Opinion: How To Solve India's Digital Divide
Despite being perceived as digital natives by parents, teachers, and policymakers, school-going children in India are not supported sufficiently to foster their digital literacy.
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Bear Grylls Sees AI, Computer Literacy as Next 'Survival Skill'
Bear Grylls, the adventurer, TV host and author, is joining forces with artificial intelligence company Seekr to launch a new platform where kids can learn what he says is the next big survival skill - digital literacy.
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WhatsApp, CSC Launch a Chatbot to Promote Digital Literacy and Rural Entrepreneurship
WhatsApp has teamed up with Common Services Centers (CSC) to launch a chatbot for citizens to receive digital literacy services and resources. Programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) and the Digital Beti initiative will be available in English, Hindi, and seven other regional languages.
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Are You Digitally Literate? Here's What the Government Thinks
The ability to read all the books in the world is not enough; we must also acquire digital literacy. So, are you digitally literate? We have an official word on this from the government.
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Facebook Launches Digital Literacy Library to Help Youth Build Skills Online
The interactive lessons and videos for youth aged 11 to 18 can be downloaded for free with the Facebook Digital Literacy Library.
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Microsoft Partners With Rajasthan Government on Digital Literacy
Microsoft will train a total of 9,500 students and 500 faculty members from 50 colleges in the state in four months.
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Armed With Smartphones, Rural Women Are Marking Their Digital Footprints
Armed with a smartphone, 26-year-old Pushpa Bunker travels from village to village in Rajasthan to introduce rural women to the world of internet. In Chhatripara village alone, she has taught over 600 women within a year on how to browse the internet for not just learning but also earning. She has been a part of Internet Saathi programme, an initia...
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How Rural India Is Fighting ‘Information Poverty’
Digital literacy in rural areas has made us see sights that we had only dreamt about. We have seen children in Rajasthan use Google images to travel to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. We have seen women in Bihar jumping over the boundary walls of their houses to escape the elder men’s glare when they go to take their digital literacy classes. We have ...
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Assam Government Giving Top Priority To Spreading Digital Awareness
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday said the state government is taking all measures to make people aware about digital banking by giving it top priority.
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Andhra Pradesh To Become Digitally Literate State: Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday said his government has been utilising technology in a big way to make Andhra Pradesh a digitally literate state and called on information technologists to come forward with innovative ideas.
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Facebook, Whatsapp Account For Hirachuni Village Of Jamshedpur
In an attempt to promote digital literacy among villagers under the Digital India campaign, Hirachuni, a small village, about 23 kms from here in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand has been identified for the purpose.
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Digital India Connecting Rural India With Mainstream: Industry leaders
Technology will be the main enabler of access to quality education, healthcare and financial services in empowering people in non-urban and rural areas and Digital India is slowly but steadily connecting rural India with the mainstream, industry leaders said on Friday.
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Government Unveils Digital Literacy Drive in Rural India at Budget 2016
Jaitley said of the 168 million crore rural households across the country, 120 million did not have computers and unlikely to have digitally literate persons.
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Free ChatGPT Plus For Everyone? Malta Just Became The First Country To Do It
Malta has partnered with OpenAI to provide a free one-year ChatGPT Plus subscription to all citizens and residents aged 14+ who complete a digital literacy course.
-
India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs Partners with Meta on Digital Consumer Protection Initiative
India's Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Meta have come together to launch a consumer awareness campaign called "Be an Empowered Consumer". The initiative, unveiled by Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan aims to enhance digital literacy and protection for online consumers.
-
Opinion: How To Solve India's Digital Divide
Despite being perceived as digital natives by parents, teachers, and policymakers, school-going children in India are not supported sufficiently to foster their digital literacy.
-
Bear Grylls Sees AI, Computer Literacy as Next 'Survival Skill'
Bear Grylls, the adventurer, TV host and author, is joining forces with artificial intelligence company Seekr to launch a new platform where kids can learn what he says is the next big survival skill - digital literacy.
-
WhatsApp, CSC Launch a Chatbot to Promote Digital Literacy and Rural Entrepreneurship
WhatsApp has teamed up with Common Services Centers (CSC) to launch a chatbot for citizens to receive digital literacy services and resources. Programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) and the Digital Beti initiative will be available in English, Hindi, and seven other regional languages.
-
Are You Digitally Literate? Here's What the Government Thinks
The ability to read all the books in the world is not enough; we must also acquire digital literacy. So, are you digitally literate? We have an official word on this from the government.
-
Facebook Launches Digital Literacy Library to Help Youth Build Skills Online
The interactive lessons and videos for youth aged 11 to 18 can be downloaded for free with the Facebook Digital Literacy Library.
-
Microsoft Partners With Rajasthan Government on Digital Literacy
Microsoft will train a total of 9,500 students and 500 faculty members from 50 colleges in the state in four months.
-
Armed With Smartphones, Rural Women Are Marking Their Digital Footprints
Armed with a smartphone, 26-year-old Pushpa Bunker travels from village to village in Rajasthan to introduce rural women to the world of internet. In Chhatripara village alone, she has taught over 600 women within a year on how to browse the internet for not just learning but also earning. She has been a part of Internet Saathi programme, an initia...
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How Rural India Is Fighting ‘Information Poverty’
Digital literacy in rural areas has made us see sights that we had only dreamt about. We have seen children in Rajasthan use Google images to travel to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. We have seen women in Bihar jumping over the boundary walls of their houses to escape the elder men’s glare when they go to take their digital literacy classes. We have ...
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Assam Government Giving Top Priority To Spreading Digital Awareness
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday said the state government is taking all measures to make people aware about digital banking by giving it top priority.
-
Andhra Pradesh To Become Digitally Literate State: Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday said his government has been utilising technology in a big way to make Andhra Pradesh a digitally literate state and called on information technologists to come forward with innovative ideas.
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Facebook, Whatsapp Account For Hirachuni Village Of Jamshedpur
In an attempt to promote digital literacy among villagers under the Digital India campaign, Hirachuni, a small village, about 23 kms from here in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand has been identified for the purpose.
-
Digital India Connecting Rural India With Mainstream: Industry leaders
Technology will be the main enabler of access to quality education, healthcare and financial services in empowering people in non-urban and rural areas and Digital India is slowly but steadily connecting rural India with the mainstream, industry leaders said on Friday.
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Government Unveils Digital Literacy Drive in Rural India at Budget 2016
Jaitley said of the 168 million crore rural households across the country, 120 million did not have computers and unlikely to have digitally literate persons.
