{"id":57322,"date":"2018-09-14T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=57322"},"modified":"2018-09-14T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T09:03:37","slug":"digital-bridge-between-india-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/digital-bridge-between-india-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Bridge between India and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Consider the following statements regarding digital bridge between India and Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>E-VidyaBharti and E-ArogyaBharti will serve as digital bridge<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The goal of this e-network to provide <\/strong><strong>tele-education and tele-medicine facility<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Select the correct statements<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(a) Only 1 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(b) Only 2 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(c) Both 1 and 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(d) Neither 1 nor 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer \u2013(c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On September 2018 External Affairs Ministry signed an agreement with the Telecommunications consultants India Ltd.(TCIL) to establish a pan-African e-network between the two nations to provide access in the critical areas of Education and Health.<\/li>\n<li>The E-VidyaBharti and E-ArogyaBharti project will serve as a digital bridge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>E-VidyaBharti<\/strong> is web-based portals for tele-education which will connect to African educational institutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>E-ArogyaBharti<\/strong> is for providing super specialty Hospitals assistance to African Hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>Hence India has friendly relationship with Africa. The government has put Africa at the top of India\u2019s foreign policy priorities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prime Minister<\/strong> Modi in his recent visit to Uganda has laid out vision for engagement with African countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why Africa is important for India?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Crude Oil- <\/strong>oil holds central place in India Africa relations. Currently, approx 70% of India\u2019s oil imports are coming from Middle East (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Iran).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maritime cooperation<\/strong><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>There is growing convergence between Indo-African maritime cooperation due to the issues pertaining to both the countries like piracy, drug trafficking and security of sea lanes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>UN permanent seat<\/strong>&#8211; Both India and Africa are keen to reform the existing global governance structures, especially the UN Security Council (UNSC).Africa plays vital role for India\u2019s emergence as a global actor in the international institutional arena.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Market-<\/strong>Africa is emerging as a large market which will benefit India\u2019s investment export to African continent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0By: Anurag Kumar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/india-launches-new-digital-bridge-with-africa-118091000560_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/india-launches-new-digital-bridge-with-africa-118091000560_1.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/opinion\/africa-a-land-of-opportunity\/article8820088.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/opinion\/africa-a-land-of-opportunity\/article8820088.ece<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/idsa.in\/idsacomments\/why-africa_dshaw_130116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/idsa.in\/idsacomments\/why-africa_dshaw_130116<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the following statements regarding digital bridge between India and Africa. E-VidyaBharti and E-ArogyaBharti will serve as digital bridge The goal of this e-network to provide tele-education and tele-medicine facility Select the correct statements (a) Only 1 (b) Only 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Correct Answer \u2013(c) Related facts- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-57322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}