Impact of Demonetization on E-Commerce Websites& Payment Systems

That took place on 8th November 2016 by banning old 500 and 1000 rupee notes, were widespread tremors experienced by people in India. The main objective of this policy was to nullify the black market operating in every sector of our economy. It has a great significant and immediate impact on the state of Indian economy as well as on our Ecommerce websites. Modi ji has impacted E-Commerce and at the same time it has an impact on the consumers and their shopping behavior through online shopping.This paper attempts to understand and analyze the effect of demonetization on consumer?s frequency of buying product and consumer?s mode of payment mode through online shopping after demonetization

GST and Online Marketplace: A Love-Hate Affair

Without any doubt, India is on course to become the second biggest online marketplace behind China. The obvious reason behind this is our population, especially the younger lot, is accepting and utilizing this digital and internet based transformation to the maximum, mostly through smart phones. People are enjoying the luxury of sitting and placing orders from anywhere on ecommerce & mcommerce websites through their smart phones. This online marketplace has seen an explosive rise in business and that is the reason, every offline business whether small or large wants an online presence, in any form; let it be a fully fledged self owned or by being just a seller on another website. As, online marketplaces open new opportunities for businesses to gain a share in this huge infectious market, no business wants to let go this opportunity and thus , are inclined to be associated with it in some form or the other. However, with the introduction of Goods & Services Tax (GST) by the Indian Government, which is based on ‘one tax, one market’ concept, the pace at which our online marketplaces were running seems to be getting an impact. This is because of the fact that businesses operating in both offline and online mode would be migrating to new tax system and with issues like rising competition, shrinking profit margins, blocked working capital, confusion in registration for GST, complex tax issues, fewer concessions, compliance issues in case of refunds and returns etc, conducting and settling an online business becomes a challenge in itself. Through this paper, the author intends to highlight and bring to foreface, the various factors that may result in growth or downfall in online businesses, post GST implementation in India

VECTORS: Video communication through opportunistic relays and scalable video coding

Crowd-sourced video distribution is frequently of interest in the local vicinity. In this paper, we propose a novel design to transfer such content over opportunistic networks with adaptive quality encoding to achieve reasonable delay bounds. The video segments are transmitted between source and destination in a delay tolerant manner using the Nearby Connections Android library. This implementation can be applied to multiple domains, including farm monitoring, wildlife, and environmental tracking, disaster response scenarios, etc. In this work, we present the design of an opportunistic contact based system, and we discuss basic results for the trial runs within our institute.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, and under 3000 words for submission to the SoftwareX journa

Women and handicrafts: Myth and reality

This issue of SEEDS reviews handicrafts as a means of providing income to women. In some instances, crafts are a solid source of income and can also provide women with a link to their own cultural heritage. In most instances, however, crafts production concentrates women in an area that is labor intensive and exploitative, providing a meager income for long hours of work. Handicrafts can be a means of increasing income for women in some settings, but only under the conditions outlined in this report, since crafts are specialized activities which have limited markets and offer limited potential as a means of employment. The report summarizes a few of the key issues that must be addressed when considering a handicrafts program for women

Role Of Community Participation In Improving Quality Of Life In Clients With Dementia And Their Caregivers

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on quality of life for clients with dementia and their caregivers by participating in a community program, the Memory Café. Method: In this qualitative, cross case study, the Marwit Meser Caregiver Grief Inventory (MM-CGI) was given to caregiver. Data collection was done by interviewing the participants; there was a main question with follow- up questions as needed. All the interviews were audiotaped and transcribed followed by primary and secondary coding. Shortlisting of categories resulted in emergence of themes which were common across cases and unique to each case. Results: Emergent themes common across cases were: couplehood, community awareness and involvement, and role of occupational therapy. There were other themes which were found to be unique to each role of client, caregiver and care-provider (occupational therapist and community outreach coordinator). Conclusion: Community participation has a direct impact on cognitive functioning and participation in community based programs favorably affects quality of life among clients with dementia and their caregivers. Participants had positive feedback about their involvement in community based program such as Memory Café which is supported strongly by literature