Green IT towards Digitalizing India

Digital India is an initiative by government of India which will prove as a blessing for Indian citizens and will also assist in connecting dots between past, present projects in India. Over the years biggest challenge for India has been to communicate information to this gigantic population. Digital Platform is one of the most efficient ways of communicating information to 1.2 billon citizens of India. Green Computing and Green technology are adopted by developed countries to reduce the impact of growing usage of computing equipments. Apache Hadoop is one of the best upcoming technologies to maintain and analyze Big Data. Hadoop can be implemented on with normal computing and also with cloud computing. Efficient use of Green technology and moving towards virtualization will trigger reduction in environmental impact of the growing use of computing

The Cross Cultural Study Concerning Gender Stereotyping in Computing: Comparison between the US and India

Computing has long been considered a male domain in the US. If this perception is true, then this situation can be detrimental to the success of women in the workplace because computing is integral to success in most jobs. Recently however, women in the global workforce are using computers and the Internet at an increasing rate, which brings into question whether computing is globally perceived as “male.” In addition, this particular phenomenon gains a more interesting aspect when the computing workforce has been outsourced off shore to countries such India, where the service work force also consists of a significant number of female computing professionals. The cultural differences between the US and India bring to light insightful aspects toward the gender perception in computing, which may benefit the interaction between business personnel when gender stereotyping is a concern. The empirical result showed that gender gaps in usage and attitudes between America and India exist in some degree

Adoption of Cloud Computing in India

The researcher looks at adoption and applicability of cloud computing to e-governance in India. Data has been gathered via structured questionnaire from stakeholders of various businesses - public & private sector of India, including Indian IT companies that offer cloud computing solutions to clients. The study takes a balanced and unbiased view of cloud computing with focus on India, to figure out the key factors that lead to its adoption using factor analysis and whether these factors could be the drivers for its adoption in e-governance. Cloud computing has picked up in developed markets and is starting to pick up in India. For enterprises, SMB, Government, NGO & individuals - it reduces initial investments, results in cost savings, gives flexibility, scalability, service on demand, device independency and anytime accessibility and reduces key data loss in the event of hardware crash, loss or theft. However, it has issues like confidentiality, information security, legal & regulatory challenges and malicious attacks as data gets stored in a distributive internet cloud, generally beyond any nation\\\'s geography. The intended target audience for this research are Union & State Governments, Large Municipal Corporations, National Federation of Urban cooperative and credit bank societies Ltd

Analysis of Demand for Major Spices in India

India is the largest producer, consumer, and exporter of spices in the world. The demand scenario for major spices in India has been comprehensively examined in the study. The shift in preferences of domestic consumers for food items, increasing urbanization and rising incomes, altered demographic and social factors and the changes in productivity of spices have brought about changes in the pattern of their consumption and demand. A two-stage budgeting framework, which is a recent development in the theory, of demand with quadratic terms of total expenditure / food expenditure and is an appropriate technique for computing the expenditure elasticities, has been employed to work out the expenditure elasticities for spices in India. The resultant expenditure elasticities range between 0.40 and 0.60 and do not show much disparity across different income classes or regions and over the years. Also, the household consumption demand projections for important spices in the country for the years 2005, 2010 and 2015 show that the domestic demand for spices would increase further in the coming years.Agricultural and Food Policy,