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Advantages of WhatsApp

 You can easily send free message to any part of the world without any charges.
 All tools provided by Whatsapp are very easy to use and user-friendly.
 You can share your location, photo, status, images, documents, and videos with your friends.

 You can do both voice call and video call.

Disadvantages of WhatsApp
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 You can call only those friends who have smart phones supporting this application
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 You must have access to Internet to call or to send and receive messages for free.

YouTube
YouTube is a video social networking site and the second most popular search site on
the Internet after Google, who owns YouTube. YouTube is a free video-hosting website
that allows members to store and serve video content. YouTube is an online video
sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own
videos.

Advantages of YouTube
 YouTube has a wide range of videos in different categories.
 In education, it helps in terms of promoting teaching and learning videos, for students to get knowledge
from professors who live in another part of the world.

Disadvantages of YouTube

 There are many pirated movies and songs published on YouTube which violate the copyright of a content.

Digital India

Digital India is a campaign of the Government of India to make the country digitally empowered in the fi eld of
technology. It was launched by Hon’ble Shri Narender Modi, Prime Minsiter of India on 1 July 2015.
The main objective of this campaign is to ensure that government services are available to citizens electronically.
It will focus on providing high speed internet services to its citizens and make services available in real time for
both online and mobile platform. Digital India also aims to transform ease of doing business in the country.

Vision of Digital India Initiative
Here is what the government of India aims to achieve through Digital India initiative.

 Infrastructure: The Digital India initiative has a vision to provide high speed internet services to its citizens
in all gram panchayats. Bank accounts will be given priority at individual level. People will be provided
with safe and secure cyber space in the country.

 Governance and services: Government services will be available online where citizens will be ensured
easy access to it. Transactions will be made easy through electronic medium.

 Digital Empowerment of Citizens: This is one of the most important factor of the Digital India initiative to

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