Digital Empowerment Quotes

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.

The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India.

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

We must close the digital divide.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Let's make sure that the Internet stays open to those who need it the most.

The beauty of e-governance is that a few keystrokes can bring smiles on a million faces.

Our demographic dividend must get the digital strength.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

Technology is the foundation of the empowerment economy.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.