Road Ahead for CSCs

[This article was published in the October 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Consumers

New Step In Telecentre Movement In Bangladesh

[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The culture of listening to the radio has almost disappeared.

Government of Haryana to deploy ADHAAR for e-Governance

The State Government of Haryana, India, is planning to deploy a statewide area network entitled ADHAAR that will connect the state headquarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels to support all its e-Governance initiatives.

Haryana establishing IT enabled citizen services to rural areas

The State of Haryana in India is establishing a communication corridor that would enable Haryana government to take IT enabled citizen services to rural areas of the state, using various e-Governance initiatives and to manage the state government’s projects and programmes.

e-Government initiative in Bandar Seri Begawan

Under the e-Government initiatives in Bandar Seri Begawan, ministries are now perusing the implementation of their agency services to help the public, said Minister of Communications Pehin Dato Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong.

Oracle to make single national database to improve citizen services

The Income-Tax Department in India has chosen Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware as the platform to develop a single national database, to increase efficiencies and improve citizen services.

iSethu project for Mumbai

Ram Informatics Ltd has signed up for iSethu, an e-Governance project , for Indian City Mumbai, with the Maharashtra Government.

Opening windows of public sector IT solutions : Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft

The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft

Climbing the e-Governance ladder : Hayati Harudin, Malaysia e-Governance Centre of Excellence

Hayati Harudin, Head, Malaysia e-Governance Centre of Excellence, Oracle Corporation Malaysia, in an interview with egov explains the current situation of e-Government applications in Malaysia and how their centre is trying to become a strategic enabler of Malaysia

Promising integrated egov solutions : S P S Grover, Senior Director, Oracle, India

“Today, Governments from across the world are looking at the model of e-Governance adopted in India and are showing interest in India