People working for an IT/BPO firm, may soon have to furnish their fingerprints and provide basic information about themselves that would reside in a central database, to be accessed by their company or prospective employers.
Dataquest has named Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom, the apex body for the software industry, the `Dataquest IT Person of the Year 2005′.
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
What was once being said for ICT4D projects in India, is being said for the e-Government space as well! India is a country of pilots (pilot projects), with no aeroplanes to fly! e-Government projects in India are too many. But every department is a
Research institutes should primarily make the results of their research accessible to the general public.
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Revolution 2005 held in the picturesque city of Chandigarh on July 15 and 16 was a showcase of immensely untapped potential of the union territory of Chandigarh, along with states of Punjab and Haryana, to emerge as future IT hotspots of India.
As per Nasscom (National Association of Software and Service Companies) study, State governments will spend close to a staggering Rs 15,000 crore on computing their operations over the next five years. The government sector accounted for nine per cent of the total IT spend in India in 2002, which is estimated to go up to 15 per cent of the total IT spend in the next five years, the study said.
