HP has signed three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Kuppam i-community initiative with BASIX, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Kuppam project was launched in 2002, a three-year pilot program that was conceived by HP with the overarching goal of using the power of HPs technology to serve disadvantaged communities.
Partnering with Intel, Radiant Infosystems has launched Community PC under Rajiv Internet kiosk Project with 1500 PCs in 14 districts of Andhra Pradesh to bring a great success to e-Governance programme of the State.
e-Seva has come a long way since 1999 in Andhra Pradesh, India and it has proved to be the best example for government-to-citizen service.
An exhaustive survey on the capabilities of e-Governance made in 191 countries has found its existence almost nil in most of the African and Middle East countries.
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Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, executed a ministerial committee to ensure prompt delivery of services to citizens.
Australian ICT ministry gives predominant thrust on ICTs in productivity drive of economy over next 20 years.
The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) will go for spot electronic-based property tax collection from the first week of April, in place of the existing physical collection of taxes.
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Rapid diffusion nature of the digital technology enables related crimes to escape the grip of cyber laws. Hence there is an urgent need to develop more technology-effective cyber laws much ahead of the rapid technological changes.
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The information society must be reshaped if it targets to deliver greater developmental impact. ICT is shaped by social and political forces, it can not automatically provide significant benefits for the central developmental goals of poor countries.
