[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Digital Green is a project to raise the incomes of smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa by the production and
dissemination of locally relevant agricultural information through participatory video and mediated instruction.
The Mayors and the Representatives of the world’s populous cities would meet in UN headquarters in New York on 23rd and 24th April 2008 to discuss how the innovative technologies can meet the environmental challenges that come up with the constantly swelling urban areas.
“We see India as a key developing area for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). There is a lot of scope for leadership. Some of the work that is done in India is very encouraging from the development perspective”, says Jerry Cochran, Senior Security Strategist, Microsoft Corporation
“What is different in India is that the government is taking online services to the villages and spending on taking Internet to rural India, unlike the US where the corporates do this”, says Hemal Patel, CEO, Elitecore Technologies
Open public meetings in New York State in the United States of America (USA), have become a lot more open and a lot more accessible than they were. Eliot Spitzer, Governor of the State of New York issued an executive order requiring state agencies and public authorities to webcast meetings subject to the Open Meetings Law on the internet.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Governments are evolving to become more customer-oriented in the delivery of their services.
India is lacking behind in the index of the world Wi-Fi rankings. India has only 454 public Wi-Fi hotspots. While US leads the Wi-Fi hotspot index with 64,670 public hotspots followed by UK (30,613), Germany (21,236) and France (22,799) hotspots.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
This section features Hospitals & Healthcare Institutions providing top class healthcare services and infrastructure in their endeavour to provide international standards in comprehensive patient care. To have your facilities featured, write to dolly@ehealthonline.org
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Governing cyberspace by just applying old solutions to new problems will not help us in providing the public goods required for sustaining elementary conditions of local good life. If local governance and policing are to remain meaningful activities, effectively pacifying local environments, new ventures in systems thinking are now required.
