3. Digital Technologies
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| APJ Abdul Kalam |
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| Y S Rajan |
Questions & Answers
1. How does Information Technology, according to Abdul Kalam and Rajan, change the agriculture sector ?
APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S.Rajan wrote the essay “Digital Technologies”. They have a vision for India in all its development. Digital technology is useful to develop the sectors of Agriculture, Industry and Service. Agriculture sector should use Information Technology more intensity. Monitoring the crops, soil conditions, water resources, better weather forecasts, marketing of the products should be connected with these new technologies. Then only agriculture can be developed to make India self sufficient.
2. Satellite Navigational System is going to transform marketing logistics in a complete way. How do the writers explain this ?
APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S.Rajan wrote the ‘essay “Digital Technologies”. They have a vision for India in its allround development. Digital technology is useful to develop the sectors of Agriculture, Industry and Service. Installation of Information Technology systems change the marketing logistics’. In the field of Banking and Insurance, a national network would help. ATM, credit cards, electronic fund transfer etc make banking more effective“. Even in the rural areas these systems can be introduced. User friendliness, greater reliability, lower energy consumption, lower pollution are to be introduced through satellite system. Large global data and communication links are available” with the help of satellite navigational system and it transforms the marketing logistics.
3. Why Marketing communication is crucial in the economic development of the country?
APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S.Rajan wrote the essay “Digital Technology”. They have a vision for India in its all-round development. Digital Technology is useful to develop in all Spheres. Marketing communication involves digitalisation. Proper management of this, will enable the country develop in the economic field. User friendliness, greater reliability lower energy consumption, lower pollution are wrought by satellite based I.T. systems. New ways of packing the material are to be adopted. We have to look to other countries and advance with new technology. New ways of packing the material have to be adopted. Distribution system should be modernised. Large global data bases and communication links are to be introduced. Then only the country can flourish and develop economically.
4. What is cultural or knowledge oriented tourism ?
APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S.Rajan wrote the essay “Digital Technologies”. They have a vision for India in its development. Digital technology is useful in all its spheres. According to the authors, in tourism also, these should be radical changes. There are many tourist spots in India. Tajmahal, Goa, the beautiful Northeast, the Deserts, the Himalayas and others attract tourists. But tourism should be cultural or knowledge oriented. The spots have cultural importance. These is a great knowledge behind the visit of these places. All the knowledge and cultural importance should be given sufficiently early to the tourists. It is possible only when we use digital technology properly. The person who visits the spot, with some knowledge of the importance of the place, shall be satisfied. He thinks that his tourist journey is knowledge oriented and he is in touch with the culture of the country.
Annotations
1. Rapid improvements in advanced sensors would make it possible to have such sensing systems at affordable prices in many of our sectors.Context: These lines are taken from the lesson ‘Digital Technologies’ written by APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan. Technology has developed and many changes exist in our daily life. Here it explains how the sensing systems are useful, in different fields.
Explanation: According to the authors Digital Technology is fast developing. It should be utilised in the sectors of Agriculture, Industry and Service. Information technology should be used more intensively. Weather forecasts, monitoring of crops and soil conditions and marketing of the products should be connected with the new technologies. In courses of time expenditure on this technology shall be cheap also. Installation of I.T. Systems shall make the transactions easier.
General Relevance: Rapid improvement of technology brings advanced type of amenities. Through satellites also, we can get a lot of support in this area.
2. Some modern technologies like Automated Teller Machines (ATM), automatic cheque clearing systems, telephonic banking, credit cards, and electronic fund transfers are being introduced in a small way and will be prevalent in most of the banks in the coming years.
Context: These lines are taken from the lesson ‘Digital Technologies’ written by APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan. Technology has developed and many changes exist in our daily life. Here it explains how the sensing systems are useful, in different fields.
Explanation: While explaining, how the technology of information, has emerged, the authors give some examples in this field. ATM, automatic cheque clearing systems, credits cards and others has come into use. These systems are being brought to villages also. Much time is saved. Banking and Insurance fields are also developed by the new technology. In course of time these systems also shall be enhanced to the whole of the country. I.T. shall improves banking and insurance system also.
General Relevance: Digital Technology is a new invention and it is being developed in all the spheres. We should have this new technology involved in all the fields. Information Technology is with great importance in modern times.
3.Coming to packing, wherever possible we can avoid the older route of plastics, though they are necessary for some products. Bio – degradable tapioca – linked paper packages have been developed in our country.
Context: These lines are taken from the lesson ‘Digital Technologies’ written by APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan. Technology has developed and many changes exist in our daily life. Here, it helps how the new trend of packing should be adopted.
Explanation: Information Technology is useful to bring a new face to our business. New technology has brought new applications in the fields of Agriculture industry and communications. A new way of packing is also taking place as days pass by. The use of plastics has to be given up. A new production tapioca has been brought into use. It is different from the plastic material. It is degradable after some time and the problem of plastics, shall be rooted out.
General Relevance: As years roll by new trend and traditions come into effect. New way of packing is described here in this passage.
4. Multi presentations can be made available in most tourist spots on the music, culture, history, biodiversity and other features of that could open by giving foreign tourists’. glimpses of such information, including local maps, by electronic mail even as they are planning their trips.
Context: These lines are taken from the lesson ‘Digital Technologies’ is written by APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan. Technology has developed and many changes exist in our daily life. Here it explain show the technology systems bring a change in the application of day to day events is given there.
Explanation: Information Technology brought a considerable change in every walk of life. A long with Agriculture, business and marketing, tourism also has got a new touch. Presenting the places through digital technology, developing modern trends in music, culture, history, electronic mail of the maps etc made the department more attractive. Now-a-days tourists are given information through advanced systems. Thus tourism becomes meaningful. They plan it sufficiently early through I.T.
General Relevance: Digital Technology has become important in the business of tourism also. Whole of the world is aware of all the tourist sports now-a-days on digital illustrations.
Reading Comprehensions
I. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages (currently Hindi and Bengali). It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.Questions & Answers
1. What is the passage about ?Educational through Information and Communication Technology.
2. NDL means —-
National Digital Library of India.
3. Which languages does NDL support currently ?
Hindi and Bengali.
4. Find a word from the passage that means ‘search’.
Exploration.
5. Who has developed the pilot project of the NDL ?
Ministry of Human Resource Development.
II. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
In a country with more than 6,50,000 villages, where more than half of its population live in rural areas and villages. Most are remote and too isolated to benefit form the country’s impressive economic progress. Yet there’s a growing desire among people in rural Indią to be part of the modern Digital India. But the last-mile delivery has always been a challenge for India due to low technology literacy among the rural citizens.The need for digital literacy in a country as populous and diverse as India is critical. If it is used for education, health care, citizen services, financial services, or any other basic need, technology and connectivity, it can make a huge difference to the socio-economic levels of a community, and ultimately to the country, since true progress comes from inclusive growth. Digital Literary plays a vital role in e-services like e-commerce, e-governance, e-panchayat, e-learning, etc. in current scenario, technology is becoming an inevitable part of our daily life, be it using mobile phones, drawing cash form ATM machines, booking a railway ticket etc. Hence, there is a need that every individual in the country must be equipped with necessary skills so as to use the technology with responsibility. The definition of who is considered a literate or educated has evolved over time and it is not complete without Digital Literacy. Digital Literacy, according to the popular definition is the ability to locate, organize, understand; evaluate, and create information using digital technology.
Questions & Answers
1. What is meant by digital literacy ?It is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and create information using digital technology.
2.Give any two examples for e-services ?
Examples : ATM machine.
3.Which one of the following is not true ?
a. More than half of India’s population live in cities.
b. More than half of India’s population live in rural areas and villages.
c. Most of the Indian villages are remote and isolated.
Answer: b. More than half of India’s population live in rural areas and villages.
4.What is the noun form of the word ‘inevitable?
Inevitability.
5.Find a word in the passage that means as the word ‘countryside?
Rural.
