Govt to bring in new technical tools to augment I&B communications

NEW DELHI: In a major revamp and to strengthen the communication, the Government of India has taken an initiative to introduce upgraded technical tools in the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry. Ministry sources told the

Millennium Post that the new system will be inaugurated in the coming financial year with the supervision of secretary in the I&B Ministry, Narendra Kumar Sinha. “New technical tools are emerging every day and information officers should be updated. Thus, this new experiment will help in exploring new technologies and all officials are under training now.”

The technical tools include, ‘Automated Insights’— a software that analyses and generates informative documents with data in a minute. ‘Wibbitz’—a web browser, automatically generates video presentation from texts without any human intervention in just 10 seconds. “This new initiative will help people in better understanding,” sources said. ‘Hemmingway app’—a web-based application helps in rephrasing sentences with more simple form for easier understanding.

According to sources, the ministry also feels that the attention span of readers is less nowadays. So, video presentation with simple sentences is an effective way to cater information intensely within seconds.

The new I&B Secretary NK Sinha wants to bring in new technologies for ease of work and reaching the mass with more effective way in less time, a ministry official added further.