About 250 million birth, death and marriage records held by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK, are to be data captured out of the southern Indian city Chennai. The city centre of Siemens Business Services (SBS) would help its parent to scan, digitise and index the records from the year 1837 to the present day.
The Cabinet of India has given its approval to promulgate an Ordinance for bringing procedural changes in the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, relating to electronic filing of documents enabling implementation of MCA 21 e-Governance Projects.
No fewer than 400 persons have been trained by the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency(NITDA), the organisation charged with the responsibility of implementing Nigeria’s Information Technology Policy.
Kwara State Government in Nigeria has concluded arrangements to introduce Electronic Tax Receipt, in an effort to boost the State Internally Generated Revenue.
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) has announced the launch of first ever National Skills Registry (NSR) for IT professionals at the India-US Information Security Summit.
Mexicans are being invited to exchange their weapons for computers under a quirky new idea to curb rampant crime in Mexico City.
The revamped Web site of the Indian State Kerala’s commercial taxes department, www.keralataxes.org, has been inaugurated recently.
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters, Hamisu Shira, has said that the National Assembly in Nigeria is yet to decide on the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM).
The state revenue department in Mumbai, India, is creating a new central agency to implement the scheme of making available revenue stamps through the internet. This is the first step towards a e-stamping and e-registration system.
