India is bowing to technology - and digitising maps of the country. This article in MIT's Technology Review magazine talks about how Microsoft is going to digitise the 'vast array of satellite images, remote sensing data' so that people can refer to these digital maps in a crisis.

This has come about due to the slow response of the Indian government to the tsunami disaster and the inability of the Indian government to forewarn her people before the strike.

About time, I say!