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How Modi won the internet during Silicon Valley visit……..

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday answered questions from the audience at a Townhall at the Facebook headquarters and took a tour of the Google headquarters with CEO Sundar Pichai. The Prime Minister spoke about the role of social media in governance, and the effect it has had on his personal life.

Here are the top 10 quotes:

1 Social media was like a guide and an easy textbook to know about things for me. It helped mould my thought process. It helped me build world consciousness.
2 I used Chinese social media to wish the PM there. It went viral. I wished the Israel PM in Hebrew and he replied in Hindi!
3 We need both highways and i-ways (information ways) in India.
4 People today live in places where infrastructure is present unlike the past when water was the reason. Soon we might live in places where there is good digital infrastructure.
5 For our government to achieve economic progress, we have to utilise the potential of the 50 percent population — the women in India.
6 My mother is illiterate. My father is no more. My mom understands things through media. My mother took lot of pains to help me grow.
7 I come from a poor family and my family played an important role in my life. No one could have imagined that the world’s largest democracy could have accepted an ordinary tea seller.
8 I thought technology helps us save time, but in fact it is the opposite: people are spending maximum time using technology.
9 I want to encourage hack-a-thons in Indian cities too.
10 India’s unique strengths: 3D. Demographic dividend, democracy and demand. I have added another D: deregulation.

 

Source….www.thehindu.com

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This Collector Has 1 Lakh Followers on Facebook. And He Interacts with Them Everyday…

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Prasanth Nair, the Kozhikode District Collector, is well known for his active presence on social media. With more than one lakh followers on Facebook, this government official makes sure that residents get a chance to interact with him whenever they want. He also conducts many campaigns to solve various local issues.

“Thank you 1,00,000 compassionate hearts,” says the cover image of a Facebook page called ‘Collector, Kozhikode‘. It is page which is personally handled by Prashanth Nair, the collector who heads the Kozhikode district administration in Kerala.

He has more than one lakh followers, and the page is full of recent updates, and numerous interactions.

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Source: Facebook

It is one of the very few social media pages of government officials where all the comments are answered. Issues are discussed here, campaigns are conducted and a lot of activity keeps taking place almost every day.

In spite of being criticized several times by politicians for his highly visible presence on social media, this government official has no plans to stop. He represents those administrators who want to reach out and remain connected with as many people as possible in this digitised world.

The page helps him solve many problems for the people of Kozhikode as well. It is full of photographs of campaigns asking people to take action in many different ways. One will also find people writing about their complaints and the issues they face in their residential areas. And the best part is that all queries, suggestions and comments are answered without fail, by Prashanth.

One of the very famous campaigns on his page is called ‘Operation Sulaimani’, which was started with the aim of addressing the issue of hunger in urban areas.

Through this project, he offers Sulaimani Coupons to people in the city who cannot afford a meal for various reasons. This could be anyone, people who are poor, or a traveller who suddenly finds that he/she does not have the required money to buy food instantly. These coupons are taken into consideration by a large number of restaurants in the city and are distributed at outlets run by student volunteers, at shops and government offices, and taluk and village offices. The restaurants which offer food in return for a coupon, get the equivalent money reimbursed from an account maintained by the campaign implementing agency.

He also conducted an online campaign to improve the facilities of Kuthiravattom mental hospital. Other than that, ‘Project 4N’ was an initiative started by him to fix potholes on roads. Then there was a campaign against urinating in public places – the ‘Trimoothri Photo Contest’, where he asked people to send in photographs of people seen urinating. All these campaigns got wide traction on the page.

But all of this has not been easy for the officer. Recently, Kozhikode District Congress Committee (DCC) president K.C. Abu, complained that the collector is spending a lot of time on social media and does not have time to receive phone calls. But Prashant simply says that he on Facebook to talk to the citizens and solve their. He believes that social media platforms are additional places to interact with citizens as much as possible.

“The people are out there in social media, so we need to be there. It’s as simple as that. Pasting notices on the notice boards of the village office is no longer the way to reach out to the public. Social media as a platform makes administration more transparent, seamless, fast, publicly accountable, and ‘informal’,” he told The Indian Express.

Source……..Tanaya Singh…www.the better india.com

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Image of the Day…” Good Morning from ISS…”

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Sunrise over the US west coast photographed from the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly), currently on a year-long mission on the International Space Station, took this photograph of a sunrise and posted it to social media on Aug. 10, 2015. Kelly wrote, “#GoodMorning to those in the western #USA. Looks like there’s a lot going on down there. #YearInSpace”

The space station and its crew orbit Earth from an altitude of 220 miles, traveling at a speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Because the station completes each trip around the globe in about 92 minutes, the crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

Image Credit: NASA

Source….www.nasa.gov

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Forget ‘Selfie’…. This one is ‘Elphie’…!!!

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Forget Selfie, This 'Elphie' will Floor You

The elephant selfie or “elphie” has taken social media users by storm. Photo credit: IANS

If you were left stunned by a black macaque’s selfie last year that became a tug of war between Wikipedia and the photographer about who owned the selfie, this awesome “elphie” is going to floor you completely.

Now trending on social media, the elephant selfie or “elphie” has taken users by storm.

The “elphie” is courtesy Christian LeBlanc, a former student from University of British Columbia, who is now studying in Thailand, globalnews.ca reported.

The “elphie” was taken on Koh Phangan Island in southeast Thailand.

“I was taking photos and feeding the elephant bananas until I ran out of bananas and the elephant grabbed my Gopro while the camera was set to ‘timelapse’,” LeBlanc told globalnews.ca. This allowed the camera continuous shooting and enabled it to take the “elphie”.

The stunning photo has now been shared by LeBlanc on her Instragram account.

Last year, a selfie taken by a black macaque on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had become a tug of war between Wikipedia and the photographer who claims he is the owner of the selfie. Wikipedia has refused to remove the famous selfie, saying the monkey – and not the photographer – owns the copyright because the animal took it.

The photographer David Slater was clicking photos of crested black macaques in 2011 when one of the endangered monkeys hijacked his camera and snapped hundreds of pictures. Among those, there were some stunning images, including a selfie of the macaque that made headlines.

Later, the US Copyright Office confirmed that a monkey – or any other animal – that takes a selfie does not own the copyright of the photo.

In an update to copyright regulations and practices, the US regulator spelled out examples of works that are not eligible for protection. These included — photograph taken by a “monkey” and — mural painted by an elephant”.

Source….www.ndtv.com

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Image of the Day….A Fantastic View From ISS.. ” !!!

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European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Jan. 30, 2015. Cristoforetti wrote, “A spectacular flyover of the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. #HelloEarth”

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti 

SOURCE:::: www. nasa.gov.

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Image of the Day…Sunset Over the Gulf of Mexico…

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Sunset Over the Gulf of Mexico

From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry W. Virts took this photograph of the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset and posted it to social media on Dec. 14, 2014.

The space station and its crew orbit Earth from an altitude of 220 miles, traveling at a speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Because the station completes each trip around the globe in about 92 minutes, the crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts 

SOURCE::::www.nasa.gov

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