Technological Inclusion New

8/2/2019 Technological Inclusion New

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PRESENTED BY

KOTA SURYANARAYANA SASTRY

BHASKER YOGENDRA

TECHNOLOGICAL INCLUSION


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As teachers, we observe many things which arecyclical /repetitive every academic year, eventhough the batches of students are alwaysdifferent.

Just as the participants of the marathon who

never finish the distance together, these studentsalso, inevitably, seem to lag behind or fall by theway side.


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Industrial revolution


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# Ever since the industrial revolution, technology has always been the privilegeand private pleasure of the upper most strata of the population.

#. With passage of time since the day of an innovation, mass productiontechniques of the industrial revolution ensured that these technologies reachedthe middle strata of the population.

# The world has witnessed an explosion of discoveries and inventions over the

past five hundred years but even now, just as then, the bottom of the pyramidcontinues to be left behind in reaping the benefits of this technologicalrevolution.

# , management thinkers such as late C K Prahlad have focused on the bottomof the pyramid and advocated that there is a fortune at the bottom of the

pyramid.

# Modern day marketing strategies of almost all corporate, be it the obviousFMCG companies or the banking and non-banking financial companies [NBFC]or insurance and financial services companies or extremely competitive telecomcompanies, are being developed with a vigorous focus on rural consumers.


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# There is another aspect of technology which needs, in fact demands, certainskills on the part of the consumers.

# There is a technological barrier between computer literate consumers andthose who are not so literate, creating a kind of second class citizens out of thelatter.

# While the folk who stand in the physical line have to wait till the counters arethrown open to public and then have to patiently await their turn, the tech savvyconsumers simply have to just log in and get their reservations made from thecomfort of their offices/houses with the aid of a credit card and internet

connection.

# And then there several circumstances which involve all of the citizens of thenation, irrespective of their technological orientation, such as the usage of EVMs

(Electronic Voting Machines) and UIDs (Unique Identity Card ) etc.


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Net Banking TechnologyIt is obvious that the banks are hard-selling their internet banking facilities. Ifone were to set aside ones fears and doubts about the safety of net banking,how many of the so-called computer literate folk can actually use net banking

for their day-to-day banking transactions?


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Mobile banking and M commerce a vast majority of the

cell phone userscannot make full useof the umpteen

features built in theirhand sets. And yetbanks are advertizingmobile banking and

many companies inIndia are pressingahead with M-commerce as the

next level of e-


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Computer Literates the fact that even

though people arecomputer literate, theyare not skilled enough

to react to such afreak situation, nor arethey smart enough tounderstand it.


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Knowledge on software usage

how many of us so-called computer literate

folk can put our hands up and say with

confidence that we know most, if not all, of

the operations of our popular applicationsoftwares such as MS Word and Excel ?


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Electronic Voting Machines At a time when many

of the matureddemocracies of theworld are deciding

against the use ofEVMs [ElectronicVoting Machines], theCEC [Central Election

Commission] ispushing ahead fullsteam in itsimplementation of

voting by EVMs.


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EVMs are they usefull The CEC has lent a deaf ear to umpteen

complaints of various political parties and activistgroups.

. It dismissed claims that EVMs can be tampered/ programmed to suit some party of choice.

It discovered that these EVMs cannot be used ifthe number of applicants exceeded 64 perconstituency.


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Computers Vs EVMs instead of an EVM, if

a computer itself canbe placed in everypolling booth, there

would be norestriction on thenumber of candidates.


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# AADHAR [a 12 digit unique identity number] the mission statement, inter alia,is to fulfill the governments stated goal of achieving inclusive growth.

# The web site of UIDAI will lead us to a discussion paper setting out theagenda for achieving financial inclusion.

# Presently, we are grappling with several pieces of personal identification

documents such as PAN [Permanent Account Number] card, driving licence,voter ID card, ration card issued by PDS [Public Distribution System] etc.

# . With the nationwide rollout of UID [Unique Identity] cards, the governmenthopes to link up all the different IDs being used currently under one data base.

# This would ensure that people cannot get away with multiple identities, thegovernment opines. If a person tries to maintain multiple IDs, he/she would becaught easily and all of his/her IDs would be blocked until it is properlyestablished as to his/her true identity.


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# The financial inclusion or inclusive growth which has been the buzz word sincethe past term of the UPA [United Progressive Alliance] government came to powerwill become a fulfilled promise.

# Joining hands with this UID scheme are the public sector banks of our country,many of which have already signed MOUs [Memorandum of Understanding] withthe UIDAI.

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