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MPs Armed with iPads: Is This a New Beginning?
By Binu Paul, SiliconIndia
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Tuesday, 06 September 2011, 04:48 IST |
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It's an undisputable fact that buying technology alone does not help improve the system, rather it should be appropriately used. Although the National Informatics Centre of India has reportedly designed many apps to speed up the functioning of the house, not many MPs are accustomed to them. More than 50 MPs are said to have attended the first orientation session in which they were being familiarized with the technology.
"MPs need not have to go into the technological details. Be familiar with its basic operations and rest of the job will be done by the supporting staff. The best part is that we are able to read, write, sent letters etc our own," says Anil Madhav Dave.
"The advanced technology is not a big issue as this was the same challenge a decade ago in the case of cell phones. By practice and usage over a period of time, you will get accustomed to it," says the MP from Tamil Nadu V. Maitreyan.
Ashk Ali Tak, a Congress MP from Rajasthan says the idea is good but the technological complexity makes it difficult to use it to the maximum. Tak depends on his private secretary to handle the device as of now and hopes he gets familiar with its operation after a few sessions of training. "MPs are finding it hard to attend orientation classes due to the ongoing parliament session," he said.
Dave feels it's quite hard to get used to the iPad system as it doesn't support Microsoft OS. "Nearly half of the works are on Microsoft, so its little difficult to manage them on iPad," he said. However, he said the thought process have already began on how can this device be used to improve the parliamentary works, arrange individual task, and organize activities in the constituencies.
