The geo-blocking regulation means If your business is based in the European Union, the new geo-blocking regulation will affect you. In most cases, you’re legally obliged to sell to interested customers from EU member states. It also means that all your online forms must be adaptable to placing and receiving orders from anywhere in the EU. However, there are a few details that every business owner there must necessarily check. Not long ago, the GDPR came into action and required website adjustments. It compels us to think the EU has got to be joking, not again! But there are a few advantages to a new regulation, not just for consumers but sellers too.

The geo-blocking regulation came into effect on 3rd December 2018. Geo-blocking is a crucial focus area of the European Commission’s E-commerce competition law sector inquiry and the Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy. The latter focuses on emitting barricades to online trade within the EU and enhancing the market. Geo-blocking is attributed to practices used by online sellers that further lead to denial of access to websites from the other Member States. The Regulation focuses on the unilateral behaviour of companies that can sometimes be discriminatory based on where a person is from and where his/her business is established.

Geo-blocking regulation and its prohibition: Any trader doing business in the related area must not refuse or limit customers’ access to online interfaces because of their place of establishment. Redirecting a customer without seeking permission: The traders must seek consent before shifting them based on their location. If the customer agrees to be turned, the trader must provide an open option to return to the original webpage. The EU believes that geo-blocking averts straight cross-border trade across the EU.

Significantly, the Regulations do not need traders to deliver goods to the member states. So conveniently, they are only required to show where they have a presence or if they already offer in a particular country. Companies are still permitted not to sell certain goods or services or to even apply different conditions for valid reasons unrelated to the customer’s location. Although traders are not compelled to keep goodwill prices across the European Union, the customers will be able to see the fees that are being charged in other member states, so there is a risk on their shoulders which somehow drives them to set near or similar to the standardized price. Author: Rishika Chhabra

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Cloud Adoption Surpassed $200 billion

Cloud computing, rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications, relies on shared computing resources. Cloud computing is taking services and moving them outside an organization’s firewall. The benefits are provided and used over the Internet and are paid for by the cloud customers on an as-per-need or pay-per-use business basis.

The federal agencies look forward as they move beyond the Cloud First tech era of the prior administration and towards the Cloud Smart approach. It seems as though the developed world is more than ready as they are increasingly well-positioned to fund the adoption and appropriation of the cloud and its untamed benefits.

The Benefits of Cloud Computing are –

• It is not only convenient but also reliable and comparatively low at costs, and most importantly, the safety and security factor is intact.
• Easy access, regardless of time and place.
• Its range of availability is so high that even federal agencies are moving towards cloud technology to enhance their missions. The anticipated benefits exceed the promise of reduced IT infrastructure and operating costs. Six in 10 federal IT personnel in recent surveys now see cloud computing as a crucial way to improve mission-critical services.

The shift in perspective about the usefulness of cloud computing is also reflected in executives’ IT investment demands; Sixty per cent of federal IT reports indicate most of their agency’s IT invested over the next three years will go toward a combination of cloud models, including government-only cloud services, public and commercial clouds or a hybrid approach.

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The federal government did their bit, as they have had years of experience since it announced its Cloud First policy, which used the best knowledge to guide agencies in adopting cloud computing technologies. Cloud technology has proven essential for federal agencies for computing data and continues to do so. The trend says that everything comes with an expiry date. Let’s see what happens next.

Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) for undertaking a pilot study in 3 districts of Bhopal, Rajkot, and Nanded in the States of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra respectively, with IBM India Private Limited, in New Delhi today. IBM’s Watson Decision Platform will give solutions in the field of agriculture through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and weather technology at the village level/ farm level to provide weather forecast and soil moisture information on a pro bono basis to help farmers make decisions regarding water and crop management for better production and productivity.

 The SoI was signed by the Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of State for Agriculture, Shri Kailash Choudhary, and other senior officials of the Ministry.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar said, ‘‘Our nation is foraying further into the digital age in the line of aspiration of the Prime Minister of India towards achieving the goal of doubling the farmers’ income, and it has been the Ministry’s assurance to bring digital technologies to help our farmers to increase their income and transform Indian agriculture’’. The Minister also added that enabling next-generation technologies, such as AI and advanced weather data, for better insights to make faster and more informed agricultural decisions is a testament to our commitment.

The IBM Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture will be leveraged to obtain a farm-level weather forecast and village-level soil moisture in three Central & Western India districts as part of the collaboration. This pilot study will be conducted for the Kharif crop season 2019.

Source: Press Release
Release ID: 1576947
Date: July 03, 2019
PIB Delhi
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare