Dubai Municipality Accomplishes 1.4 million e-Transactions
Dubai Municipality Accomplishes 1.4 million e-Transactions

Dubai Municipality has accomplished a record 1,386,791 e-transactions last year i.e. 2008, marking a tremendous success of the e-government project of the Municipality. Among the 492 e-services provided by the Municipality e-portal, 402 are main services and others are branch services covering information services and transactional services that facilitate easy access to a number of forms required for getting the Municipality services accomplished.

Boost for provincial e-Governance
Boost for provincial e-Governance

The Finnish government has signed a deal with South Africa that the government will donate 12 million euros to SA in ICT development aid over a three-year period. The fund will provide support to the SA Provincial Information Society Strategy programme.

Singapore wants e-govt to reach masses
Singapore wants e-govt to reach masses

Singapore is moving ahead in the direction of government’s online initiatives. While speaking at the e-Government Summit 2007, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), stated that the country’s public e-services need to be extended to reach more people.

Information Kiosks
Information Kiosks

[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

India ranks 44 among 122 countries throughout the world with a network readiness score of 4.06 (The Network Readiness Index 2006-2007 Rankings).

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