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SMART CITIES, VILLAGES AND REGIONS

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                             A smart city is an urban development vision to integrate multiple  ICT solutions in a secure fashion to manage a city’s assets namely but not limited to local departments information systems, schools, libraries, transportation systems, hospitals, power plants, water supply networks, waste management, law enforcement, and other community services. ICT allows city officials to interact directly with the community and the city infrastructure and to monitor what is happening in the city, how the city is evolving, and how to enable a better quality of life. Smart cities are aimed at facilitating economic growth and improving the quality of life of people by enabling local development and harnessing technology as a means to create smart outcomes for citizens. Alongside development of smart cities, there is need to develop regions and villages to be smart too to reduce rural urb...
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Information Ethics

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Information ethics  has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society". [1]  The term  information ethics  was first coined by Robert Hauptman and used in the book  Ethical challenges in librarianship . It examines the morality that comes from information as a resource, a product, or as a target. [2]  It provides a critical framework for considering moral issues concerning informational  privacy , moral agency (e.g. whether artificial agents may be moral), new environmental issues (especially how agents should behave in the  infosphere ), problems arising from the life-cycle (creation, collection, recording, distribution, processing, etc.) of information (especially ownership and copyright,  digital divide , and  digital rights ). It is very vital to understan...
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his covers three sub components, namely Broadband for All - Rural, Broadband for All - Urban and National Information Infrastructure (NII).  Broadband for All - Rural 2,50,000 village Panchayats would be covered under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) by December 2016. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is the nodal Department for this project. Broadband for All - Urban Virtual Network Operators would be leveraged for service delivery and communication infrastructure in new urban developments and buildings would be mandated. National Information Infrastructure (NII) NII would integrate the network and cloud infrastructure in the country to provide high speed connectivity and cloud platform to various government departments up to the panchayat level. These infrastructure components include networks such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN), National Knowledge Network (NKN), National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), Government User Network (GUN) and the Megh...
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