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The government is developing a platform to help citizens who store their documents in DigiLocker to auto-update their address and other demographic details across departments through Aadhaar, officials told ET. This and more in today’s edition of ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ Stock-investing firms meet finmin officials on TCS issue■ Karnataka HC adjourns Twitter case to March 16■ Foxconn committed to Karnataka, Telangana projects Programming note: The ETtech newsletter team will be taking a short break on…

Image Source : MPASSPORT SEVA APP MEA launches 'mPassport Police App' to expedite police verification for passports The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched a new app, the ‘mPassport Police App,’ to help expedite passport issuance by streamlining the police verification process. The app will allow police personnel to submit digital and paperless…

FM Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the Budget 2023-24. In it, she had various proposals that will impact the tech sector, including smartphones turning cheaper, 5G Labs to be introduced and much more. The Union Budget for the 2023-24 fiscal was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today in Parliament. Continuing the paperless tradition, she read out the details of the budget from her tablet for the third year in a row. While the major highlight from the budget was the hike in capital expenditure and…

The government will set-up a DigiLocker digital document storage capability to enable storage of documents digitally, and ease the process of digital application of credit for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while…

The government expects five to seven countries to sign up for adopting India-developed technology platforms like UPI and Aadhaar by March for accelerating digitisation, according to Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar.While speaking at India Stack Developer Conference, the minister said that the Prime Minister has decided to offer India technology platforms to countries to help them accelerate digitisation."I expect by February-March, about 5-7 countries around the world to…

WhatsApp is the most-used mobile messaging app in the world. The Facebook-owned instant messaging platform has more than two billion users worldwide. India is the largest market for WhatsApp, with Brazil being second biggest. According to research firm Statistica, WhatsApp had almost 490 million users in India at the end of the year 2021. While WhatsApp started as a chat app, over the years it has evolved much beyond. WhatsApp can now be used for voice and video calls, group chats, share media (photos, videos, songs) with…

Image Source : GOOGLE Google Google has announced an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model which will enable the user to identify and highlight medicines written in the prescriptions by doctors in difficult-to-read handwriting. Reports state that this will act as an assistive technology for digitising handwritten medical documents by augmenting…

CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, on Monday highlighted investments in AI that the company shared at Google for India event to make India's digital economy more inclusive, helpful, and safe by introducing a multimodal AI model that covers 100+ Indian languages, ML-powered bilingual search results pages (launching in India first), support for a new centre for responsible AI at IIT Madras. Speaking at the 8th edition of the Google for India event, with Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for Railways, Communications and…

IANS New Delhi, December 19 Google on Monday announced that it will integrate “DigiLocker”, a government-issued document storage service, into the Files app on Android so users can access government-verified documents from the app in India. At the annual Google for India event, Google announced its partnership with the National eGovernance Division (NeGD), established by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to roll out the DigiLocker integration…

Google introduced a host of new features and endeavours at the eighth Google for India event on Monday, including its efforts to digitise doctor's prescriptions and expanding its search functionality. The search giant's new Multisearch feature lets users take pictures and screenshots and add text to their queries. Google also showcased the 'Search in video' feature that adds the ability to search within videos via the Search app on phones. Meanwhile, the company also announced support for accessing Digilocker documents…