The government today is fully aware of the benefits that Cloud Computing can bring to the table and how it can be an excellent platform for fast, affordable service deployment and delivery
[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Growth in information is forcing a transformation in the IT sector. The acceleration in the pace of growth in information will only gather momentum, with the next four years expected to see a five-fold increase in information from 486 extabytes to 2502 extabytes, according to the Digital Universe Study done by IDC. Interestingly, 70% of this information explosion is going to be created by the private domain with more photos, videos, social networking and many other applications coming into play and mobile Internet becoming more popular.
[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In its purest form, the objective of standards in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area is to establish a common mechanism for two systems to interoperate through the implementation of a technical specification. The specification can cover data formats, protocols or other interfaces and practices, but the objective is essentially the same in each case. While standards can in some cases fulfill this objective, this is not an automatic, mechanical process guaranteed to succeed, and there are usually many challenges to achieving interoperability between different implementations of an ICT standard. Once these challenges are fully understood, the collaborative efforts of different implementers can often navigate these challenges and enhance interoperability.
CGSWAN is the largest WiMAX 802.16d deployment in Asia connecting 3,000 Government offices of the state government
Aman Kumar Singh is an Indian Revenue Services(Customs and Central Excise) Officer of 1995 batch with an Engineering Background (Regional Engineering College, Bhopal). He is presently Chief Executive Officer of Chattisgarh infotech and biotech Promotion Society CHiPS) and Secretary-in-charge (IT) of Government of Chattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh, earlier a part of the state of Madhya Pradesh (India), came into being on November 1, 2000. Despite being a new state, Government of Chhattisgarh is taking many e-Government initiatives to deliver significant benefits to citizens and businesses. It has come out with IT and ITES Policy and is first state in India to design a comprehensive roadmap for e-Governance.
