Modi, Abdullah, Google chairman, 'Guardian' Editor to share a tent

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will engage with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and The Guardian Editor In Chief Alan Rusbridger at the Google Big Tent Activate Summit 2013.

Modi will deliver an address through Google+ hangout, a state government release said.

Google is hosting tent events around the world, bringing together speakers with diverse points of view to debate some of the hot issues relating to the Internet and society, the Google Tent blog said.

The CMs, who frequently take to Twitter and are known for their tech- savvy ways, will discuss the topic ‘Technology in Politics’

Big Tent summits are hosted by Google in different cities across the world.

On Tuesday in Mumbai, Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian since 1995, spoke about how journalism has undergone a fundamental change since the 19th, or even 20th century.

Commenting on how live blogging got popular during the Arab Spring, Rusbridger said, “Journalism incorporated this and we discovered our pieces were infinitely richer and more comprehensive, as we pulled in stories from different sites by other writers.”

Rusbridger said that after switching to the use of social media as a professional tool and putting digital media first, The Guardian website has become the third-largest news website in the world.