{"id":25475,"date":"2018-04-13T01:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=25475"},"modified":"2018-04-13T01:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:10:46","slug":"pema-berkeley-university-agree-on-rolling-out-smart-village-initiative-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/pema-berkeley-university-agree-on-rolling-out-smart-village-initiative-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pema, Berkeley University agree on rolling out smart village initiative in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO (USA), Apr 12:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Prof Solomon of the Berkeley University (BU) here have agreed, in principle, to roll out a smart village initiative in Arunachal Pradesh by dovetailing the CM Adarsh Gram Yojana with the professor&#8217;s self-financing model of smart villages.<br \/>\nProf Solomon has undertaken a self-financing model of smart villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh for empowering the under-banked and underserved sections of the population in the rural areas through technology.<br \/>\nSolomon gave his consent to the idea on Thursday during discussions here with the CM on wide-ranging issues related to developing Arunachal Pradesh. A delegation is expected to visit the state shortly.<br \/>\n&#8220;With a predominantly rural population in the state, empowering the villages will usher in inclusive development in the truest sense,&#8221; Pema said.<br \/>\nProf Solomon is the Executive Director, Garwood Centre for Corporate Innovation, and currently works in UC Berkeley. He is known as the &#8216;Father of the smart village movement&#8217;, and has developed scalable models that support rural village markets by aligning global brands, start-ups and local cottage industries to form a better future.<br \/>\nEarlier, Pema visited the headquarters of PayPal &#8211; the digital ecommerce platform &#8211; at San Jose, where he was given a guided tour on the innovations being undertaken by PayPal, and told about the future of digital transactions involving very high degree of data encryption and protection of individual data.<br \/>\nThe CM&#8217;s delegation included Ambassador V Ashok, Chief Secretary Satya Gopal, and others. (CMO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (USA), Apr 12: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Prof Solomon of the Berkeley University (BU) here have agreed, in principle, to roll out a smart village initiative in Arunachal Pradesh by dovetailing the CM Adarsh Gram Yojana with the professor&#8217;s self-financing model of smart villages. Prof Solomon has undertaken a self-financing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}