“DIGITAL DESH 2.0” unveiled by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

NowFloats, a Hyderabad-based technology company, has produced the second edition of its report, Digital Desh – “Inside the Internet of India”. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications & IT, Government of India, launched the book along with Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-Founder, NowFloats; Chetan Krishnaswamy, Country Head – Public Policy, Google India; Sharad Sharma, Co-Founder, iSPIRT; Dr Subho Ray, President, Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI); Manav Sethi, Group CMO, AskMe, India & Malaysia; and Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder, Paytm.

Digital Desh 2.0 takes readers “Inside the Internet of India” through a 4,000+ km journey across 18 cities, towns and villages and meet the real “superpower” of Digital India, and reveals fascinating human stories of how Indians are using smartphones to innovate, empower and create...Read more

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