In todays podcast, we share interesting stories from Business Today 25th Anniversary issue: Toward a Smarter India. Technologies and Innovations that can transform the country. http://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/issue/january152017 .

 

The 94th episode of Digital India Podcast on FIR Podcast Network is brought to you by staff and students of  Web Marketing Academy

 In this issue we took a particular story and discussed that story in the podcast: A tale of two villages

Gujarats Akodara has turned cashless, while nearby Daramali has gone smart – by P.B. Jayakumar ​

We discussed how a village with a population of less than 2000 become the Country’s First Digital Cashless Village and it has Wi-Fi, while almost every household has either a tablet or a laptop. Around 70 per cent of Daramali’s residents have smartphones.

We went thru some of those stats and what we can learn about consistency, adapting change. A hostel for cattle