Govt trials in-house video conferencing platform
(WorldNews India)

A video-conferencing platform developed in-house by the government was used for the first time on Friday in an official meeting chaired by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The Communications and Information Technology Minister used the software built by the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)-a research body under the Department of Telecommunications-to speak to 40 chief postmaster generals about ensuring essential supplies of medicine, as well as financial delivery and tele-medicine in rural areas of the country. Its development began roughly a year ago, in acknowledgement of the lack of domestically-made video conferencing tools, a ministry official told The Indian Express....