Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched an Artificial Intelligence-based platform ‘Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping’ (ASEEM)’ digital platform, to improve the information flow and bridge the skilled workforce’s demand-supply gap market across sectors. ASEEM https://smis.nsdcindia.org/, also available as an APP, is developed and managed by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based Betterplace, specializing in blue-collar employee management.

The portal would help recruit a skilled workforce that spurs business competitiveness and economic growth to find sustainable livelihood opportunities. The platform envisioned strengthening their career pathways by hand-holding them through their journeys to attain industry-relevant skills and explore emerging job opportunities, especially in the post-COVID era.

Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM) portal uses a match-making engine to map skilled workers’ details based on regions and jobs available in the local industry. The portal and App would provide registration and data upload for workers across job roles, sectors, and geographies. The skilled workforce can register their profiles on the App and search for employment opportunities in their neighbourhood. Through ASEEM, employers, agencies, and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce in specific sectors will also have the required details. It will also enable policymakers to take a more objective view of various industries.

The portal aims to support decisions and policymaking via trends and analytics generated by the system for programmatic purposes. It describes the workforce market and maps the demand for skilled workforce supply. It helps provide real-time data analytics to NSDC and its Sector Skill Councils about the demand and supply patterns, including – industry requirements, skill gap analysis, demand per district/ state/cluster​​, key workforce suppliers, critical consumers​, migration patterns​ and multiple potential career prospects for candidates.​ The portal consists of three IT-based interfaces –
Employer Portal – Employer onboarding, Demand Aggregation, candidate selection ​
Dashboard – Reports, Trends, analytics, and highlight gaps ​
Candidate Application – Create and track candidate profile, furthermore share job suggestions. ​

It will provide real-time granular information by identifying relevant skilling requirements and employment prospects. Envisaging the rapidly changing nature of work and its impact on the workforce is crucial in restructuring the skilling ecosystem with the new normal settling post-pandemic. Besides identifying the significant skills gap in the sectors ​and reviewing global best practices, ASEEM will allow employers to assess the availability of a skilled workforce and formulate their hiring plans.

A database of labour migrants in Indian states and overseas citizens who returned to India under the Vande Bharat Mission and filled out the SWADES Skill Card has been integrated with the ASEEM portal.

Candidate data coming to the Skill India Portal from various state and central skilling schemes will be integrated, including PMKVY, Fee-based Programs, National Urban Livelihoods Mission, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana, and ‘Seekho aur Kamao’.

Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, Hon’ble Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, launched the ASEEM portal. He said, “Driven by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Aatamanirbhar Bharat’ and his assertion of ‘India as a talent powerhouse’ India Global Week 2020 Summit. The ASEEM portal is envisioned to give an enormous impetus to our persistent efforts to bridge the demand-supply gap for skilled workforce across sectors, bringing limitless and infinite opportunities for the nation’s youth. The initiative aims to accelerate India’s recovery by mapping the skilled workforce and connecting them with relevant livelihood opportunities in their local communities, especially in the post-COVID era. The increasing use of technology and e-management systems assists in bringing in processes and intelligent tools to drive demand-driven and outcome-based skill development programs. This platform will ensure close convergence and coordination across various schemes and programs operating in the skill ecosystem. It will also ensure that we monitor any data duplication and further re-engineer the country’s vocational training landscape, ensuring a skilling, up-skilling, and re-skilling in a more organized set-up.”

Shri AM Naik, Chairman, NSDC, and Group Chairman, Larsen & Toubro Limited, highlighted how ASEEM would bridge the demand-supply gap in the skilled workforce market. He said, “Migrant labor has been severely impacted by the socio-economic fallout of the COVID pandemic. In the current context, NSDC has taken up the responsibility of mapping the dispersed migrant population around the country and providing them the means to re-build their livelihood by matching their skill-sets to available employment opportunities. The launch of ASEEM is the first step on that journey. I am confident that the real-time information ASEEM provides to both employer and employee will add value to the labor ecosystem and contribute to building the trust among the workforce, which is essential for the recovery of the economy.”Source: Date: July 10, 2020 PIB Delhi

The hosting industry wholly transformed in a decade. Almost every hosting company started offering unlimited resources while keeping the subscription cost low, with that burden to keep every customer happy. It is no surprise that this approach has done maximum sabotage to the web hosting industry. With the increasing pricing for human resources, maintenance, and providing utmost security to customer accounts, most hosting companies started struggling. Keeping the business sustained and thriving seems unrealistic to them.

The online identity of a business is its website, and an online business is growing; companies want 100% assurance of the website availability 24/7. The hosting provider support team’s expectation is around 100%, high availability of human resources, less wait time, and fast action on issues. These customer expectations are hosting business requirements. It leads to the minimum attraction of hosting companies running on reseller hosting plans. It is the business where the companies running it must understand the underlying technology that supports its processes.

The core/parent hosting companies sell their reseller plans with the concept that resellers must focus only on marketing; the rest will take care of it. Hence, most resellers don’t know what their system is and its capability is. The parent company sells reseller-plan to anyone without justifying whether the customer is the right person. Wrong assumptions burn most reseller hosting businesses. They took it easy to run with their present setup or existing business.

Every business needs time, resources, dedication, planning, and execution. The reseller hosting providers lure the young with unrealistic propositions. They say running the hosting business is easy, but they don’t discuss its complexities. Hence, losers like Ananova.com find such hosting providers come and go without achieving the promised results. The customers’ issues are always honest and need to be resolved. The companies that don’t resolve customer issues are unsuccessful and won’t be around in the future.
Although it is the reseller hosting business’s beauty, the entrepreneur does not need to understand the embedded processes deeply. They are free from all underlying details and focus only on selling products or services. Hence, these resellers’ status quo is to approach the parent providers for all constraining challenges and do not want to hear more about the problems.

Mostly, designers and developers go for reseller hosting plans. With their background and experience, they make a sustainable change that is meaningful and has an impact on eir customers.

After installing WordPress into the Website, one has to look for an efficient SEO tool on WordPress, an instrument capable of dragging the site up to the higher ranks. Online marketing has become a very competitive market, so the requirement for efficient tools is high. A proper WordPress SEO tool can help a lot in the website growth and development process.

While installing an SEO tool on WordPress, consider the different aspects of the service that the device should serve, and only then should he purchase it. A proper SEO tool will be the assimilation of all the instruments, starting snippet previews to sitemaps. There should also be user-friendly features that will help the user analyze the website standard.

Template setting is a vital work for the WordPress. The SEO tool, if efficient, will be a complete guide in the user’s choice of the teme. The class should show the user the proper model according to the page type. It makes the entire model-choosing process incredibly easy for the user.

Also, the text box stays in these types of tools, which helps make marvellous titles that match the models. With the snippet preview, the user can get an idea of how his web page should look and likewise can make the alterations. These two applications make it easy for the users to have a soothing and appropriate web page look.

The plug-in used in WordPress determines the future of the internet page. It defines the keyword after properly checking all the essential aspects of the web page. So, before the optimization process, only the users get a total view of the areas that need improvement. The changes are made, and the optimization process increases the web page.

In some cases, organizations, whether private organizations or large business groups prefer some specific parts of their sites. At the same time, they wanted to ensure this would not affect the optimization process of their websites. The SEO tool can make it possible.

The other factors the SEO tool on WordPress can solve are the following. Firstly, it determines which is the home page and which is the derivative page. According to this segregation, they make the changes that attract the search engines—all the corrections regarding the page elements and decisions are made by this SEO tool.

Also, the tool helps the users eliminate any undesirable links on the site. Many links are annoying and objectionable and may harm the web page’s reputation. According to the user’s decision, this tool can quickly delete or set aside all these links. All these parts of the task make the SEO tool on WordPress the most helpful in creating a fast-growing and successful website.

IIT Hyderabad uses artificial intelligence to study supply chain network of biofuels

Dr Kishalay Mitra: “In India, biofuels generated from non-food sources are the most promising source of carbon-neutral renewable energy

Bio-derived fuels are gaining widespread attention among the scientific community across the world. The work on biofuels is in response to the global call for reducing carbon emissions associated with the use of fossil fuels. In India, too, biofuels have caught the imagination of researchers.
For instance, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad have started using computational methods to understand the factors and impediments to incorporating biofuels into India’s fuel sector.
A unique feature of this work is that the framework considers revenue generation not only as an outcome of biofuel sales but also in terms of carbon credits via greenhouse gas emission savings throughout the project lifecycle.

The model has shown that if bioethanol is integrated with mainstream fuel, its costs are as follows: production cost 43 per cent, import 25 per cent, transport 17 per cent, infrastructure 15 per cent, and inventory 0.43 per cent. The model showed that the feed available to at least 40 per cent of the capacity is needed to meet the projected demands.

Dr Kishalay Mitra, lead researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, said, “In India, biofuels generated from non-food sources is the most promising source of carbon-neutral renewable energy. These second-generation sources include agricultural waste products such as straw, hay, and wood, among others that do not intrude upon food sources.”

The team has considered multiple technologies available for bioenergy generation across several zones in the country and performed a thorough feasibility study using suppliers’ data, transport, storage, and production, among others, published by the Indian Government.

Regarding this research, Kapil Gumte, a Research Scholar at IIT Hyderabad, said, “We use machine learning techniques to understand the supply chain network. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence in which the computer learns patterns from available data and updates automatically to produce an understanding of the system and predictions for the future.”

“The techno-economic-environmental analysis on country-wide multi-layered supply chain network and the use of machine learning techniques have helped us capture the uncertainty in forecasting demands and other supply chain parameters and their effects on the operational and design decisions in the long run,” added Dr Mitra.

The results of this work were published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.

(PIB Release ID: 1636107 Posted By Jyoti Singh)

Indian PM urges tech community to participate in Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge

In a post published on LinkedIn, the Indian Prime Minister mentioned India’s vibrant tech and startup ecosystem and how youngsters have excelled in providing tech solutions across sectors. He said there is a lot of enthusiasm among the startup and tech ecosystem to innovate, develop, and promote homegrown apps. It adds that while the nation is working towards creating an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. It is an excellent opportunity to give direction and momentum to evolve apps that can satisfy our market and compete with the world.

With this objective in mind, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and the Atal Innovation Mission have developed the Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation challenge, which will run in two tracks: promoting existing apps and developing new apps. The Government and tech community members will jointly host this challenge to make it more holistic.

The Government will provide mentoring, hand-holding, and support for promoting existing apps and platforms across e-learning, work-from-home, gaming, business, entertainment, office utilities, and social networking. Track-01 will work in mission mode to identify useful quality apps for the leaderboard and shall be completed in around a month. For incubating new apps and platforms, the Track-02 initiative will help create new champions in India by providing support in ideation, incubation, prototyping, rollout, and market access.

The Prime Minister wrote that this challenge will give better visibility and clarity to existing apps to achieve their goals and create tech products to find solutions to tech puzzles with the help of mentorship, tech support, and guidance during the entire life-cycle.

The prime minister shared ideas and asked if technology can help make traditional Indian games more accessible. If apps are developed to help people in rehabilitation or get counselling or with targeted and intelligent access to the suitable age group for learning, gaming, etc., can be developed. He urged the tech community to participate and help create an Aatmanirbhar App Ecosystem.

Startup India initiative aims to foster entrepreneurship and promote innovation by creating an ecosystem that is conducive to the growth of Startups. The objective is that India must become a nation of job creators instead of job seekers. The Prime Minister of India will launch the initiative on January 16, 2016. The event was attended by many young Indian entrepreneurs (over 2000) who have embarked on entrepreneurship through Startups. As a vital component of this “Startup India” launch, the Government of India is organizing a global workshop on “Innovation and Startups” on January 16, 2016.

Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, will occasionally be the Chief Guest. This workshop aims to provide a platform for all stakeholders, stimulate dialogue on key challenges that the Indian innovation ecosystem currently faces, and provide potential solutions to address them. Fostering a fruitful culture of innovation in the country is a long and remarkable journey. This initiative will significantly reinforce India’s commitment to making India the hub of innovation, design, and Startups. (Press Release ID: 1636428 – PIB – India)

/etc/xen directory

Place for configuration files to use as a template. The settings user may change include:

• root: The root device for the domain or the partition where the boot image is stored and can be logical volumes or disk image files.
  disk = [ ‘phy : /home/ananova/hostlvm, analvm,w’ ]
  analvm would appear as virtual machine having image hostlvm and with read/write access.
• kernel: The Kernel image path used by the virtual machine
  kernel = “/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.1”
• memory: Allowable memory for the domain to use
• disk: The block partitions domain can use
• dhcp: Enables domain to use DHCP to set networking
• hostname: The hostname of the virtual machine
• vif: The MAC address to use
• extra: Additional boot parameters
• restart: Automatic restart options: always, never, onreboot

xm create anavm xm console anavm OR xm create -c anavm

• xm list: Lists domains with detailed information such as domain ID, CPU time used, memory used and the domain state
• xm save
• xm restore
• xendomains: To restart and stop domains

Virtualization Benefits

• Run the different operating systems on a Linux system, as well as virtual versions of the kernel to test new applications.

More About Linux Virtualization

• gnome-applet-vm: GNOME VM applet to monitor virtual machines
• vibvirt tool kit for accessing Linux virtualization capabilities
• HVM System: It can provide full virtualization without specially modified versions of an OS Kernel. It allows users to run Windows XP directly from Linux.
• VMWare: It provides a free version & commercial virtualization server and virtualization desktop to install other OS and ESX virtualization server that is stable and efficient.
• Image: It is a pre-defined virtual machine from which numerous other virtual machines (Fedora, Ubuntu) could be generated.
• Software Emulator QEMU: It is used for processors without hardware virtualization support and runs guest OS by creating an image file qemu-img.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today awarded a $4.35 million Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) grant to the Virginia Department of Transportation for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Meets Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) project.

This year, the ATCMTD program awarded grants valued at $43.3 million to ten projects that use cutting-edge technologies to improve mobility and safety for America’s travellers.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao said: “This $43.3 million in federal funding will advance innovative technologies that will improve mobility and safety in America’s transportation network.”

The initiative will expand two project-level programs in northern Virginia. The first will deploy predictive parking availability information using AI. The second will develop a decision-support system, employing advanced machine-learning techniques and artificial intelligence to generate incident and congestion management responses based on real-time conditions.
FHWA’s ATCMTD program funds early deployments of forward-looking technologies that can serve as national models. This year, the grants will fund projects that use advanced real-time traveller information, vehicle communications technologies, artificial intelligence, regional approaches, and bicycle-pedestrian safety features.

Federal Highway Administrator Nicole R. Nason said: “The program selections this year aim to benefit communities across the country by improving safety and efficiency on our roads by deploying advanced technologies. Virginia’s project stands out in partnering with transportation agencies across the state to expand important artificial intelligence and integrated corridor management programs.”

The FHWA evaluated 33 applications requesting more than $139 million.
ATCMTD was established under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. State departments of transportation, local governments, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, and other eligible entities are invited to apply. Now in its fourth year, the program has funded over 35 projects worth $207 million. Press Release: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 FHWA10I-20 Contact: Nancy Singer Tel.: (202) 366-0660

The £40 million government funding from a £211 million government investment package supports and encourages the UK’s next generation of innovative start-ups and enterprises to develop new technological advances. It is part of a broader investment package of £1.25 billion for innovative UK businesses, announced by the Chancellor on 20 April 2020. The funding benefits projects include I3d Robotics building virtual reality training platforms for surgeons to enable medical students to upskill remotely and perform simulation surgeries, virtual farmers’ markets, and other innovations from the coronavirus pandemic. It will deliver practical solutions such as new virtual farmer’s markets and entertainment platforms to bring the best British produce and cultural entertainment to homes.

In April, the Fast Start Competition launched and managed by Innovate UK.

The competition aims to fast-track the development of innovations from the coronavirus crisis. It will help to build the UK’s tomorrow’s businesses and propel their future prosperity. Furthermore, to deliver potential solutions, services, and ways of working and help ensure these businesses’ long-term sustainability.

The ideas can significantly impact society, improve individuals’ lives, especially those in vulnerable groups, and enable businesses to prosper in challenging circumstances.

Innovate the UK received a record number of applications – over 8,600 to the Fast Start Competition and will now distribute investment to over 800 projects.

‘Volunteers Ltd” has developed a social media app to connect local communities and allow volunteers to target support to the most vulnerable members in their neighbourhoods.

Elchies Estates Limited is setting up new virtual farmers’ markets to replace traditional markets closed due to COVID-19, providing a platform for local businesses and farmers to sell their produce. The platform aims to offer all sizes of fresh and frozen farm produce from an ‘open all hours’ location. Selling local produce in a completely safe and domestic environment is welcomed, especially by the many older customers of our farmers’ markets and farm events, which are cancelled for the foreseeable future.

For customers living in rural areas, the project will allow them to continue to access great local produce with minimal food miles and, for the first time, 24/7. The UK government would continue to provide community services while safeguarding themselves, farms, and contractors.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced the government is doubling investment in the Fast Start Competition with an additional £20 million.

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Kemi Badenoch said:
The UK is a world leader in research and development, and our ability to innovate will be vital to tackling this crisis.

Executive Chair of Innovate UK, Dr Ian Campbell, said, “Bus,inesses from all over the UK have answered our call rapidly to meet the challenges we face today and in the future through innovation.”

Farm Manager & Directors Elchies Estates Limited Julie Comins and Brian Cameron said, “The, virtual farmers’ market project responds to the short-and-medium-term implications of COVID-19 and the change in food buying patterns.” Source: Press Release – 20 May 2020, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Innovate the UK, and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP

The automatic backup data of each host is sent to the host operating as a centralized Amanda server. The host requests the Amanda server to restore data, specifying the file system, data, and filenames. A server is installed with an Amanda-server package and a client with the Amanda-client box. The clients may have different configurations and operating systems.

The Amanda server runs through xinetd using xinetd service located in /etc/xinetd.d. The three service files include Amanda, a mixtape, and amandaidx. For a client to recover a backup from the server, a hostname is placed in the .amandahosts file in the server Amanda user’s directory /var/lib/Amanda. The file /var/Amandaanda/.amandahosts lists all the hosts tAmanda backs and.

• Dump: performs automatic requested non-interactive backups for the file systems listed in the disk list configuration file, placed within cron instruction to run at a specified tiflushlush: if, for any reasdumpdump cannot save all its data to a backup medium, then it will retain the data on the holding disk, which ich wrote with flush command. It directs backup data from the holding disk to a tape.
• restore: restore backups, either particular files or complete systems
• recover: select from the lists of backups to restore using an interactive shell
• cleanup: Clean up if there is any system failure on the server
• label: Label the backup medium for Amanda
• check: Check the backup systems and files, as well as the backup tapes, before the backup operation
• admin: Backup administrative tasks
• tape: manage backup tapes, loading and removing them
• verify: Check the format of the tapes
• a verify run: Check recordingsapes from the previous run, specify the configuration directory for the backup
• amrmtape: Remove tape from the Amanda database used for damaged tapes
• status: show the status of the current Amanda backup operation

Amanda’s configuration files get automatically created with the installation. A user mentions the directory to use as a holding disk, where backups are kept before writing to the tape.

• /Amandaanda: keeps configuration files and subdirectories for different kinds of backups to be performed. Each directory contains an amanda. conf and disk list file. A user edits them and enters the system’s settings. The Amanda. conf has basic configuration parameters like the tape type and logfile and holding file locations. A user can change the commercials.
  The disklist file contains information about a host, file systems, and partitions to be backed and dump-type. The possidump typesypes defined in Amanda. conf. The dump-type parameters include:
  priority of the backup
  use of compression
  comp-root to backup root partitions wreductionsion and low-priority
  always-full: backup an entsectiontion with no compression and the highest priority
• /var/lib/Amanda: Keeps log and database files