e-Governance Challenges
e-Governance Challenges

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

By Golok Kumar Simli,
Principal Consultant & Head-Technology, MEA, GoI

By Neeta Verma,
HOD, Data Centre and Web Services Division, NIC

Empowering Masses through ICT
Empowering Masses through ICT

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Goal of community knowledge enterprises is to take information at the right time to the right place and to the right person in right context

Face2Face is way to open govt
Face2Face is way to open govt

[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Govt can use social media as a potential goldmine for to-and-fro exchange of citizen views on public and policy matters

Future of Information Storage is ‘Virtual’
Future of Information Storage is ‘Virtual’

[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Growth in information is forcing a transformation in the IT sector. The acceleration in the pace of growth in information will only gather momentum, with the next four years expected to see a five-fold increase in information from 486 extabytes to 2502 extabytes, according to the Digital Universe Study done by IDC. Interestingly, 70% of this information explosion is going to be created by the private domain with more photos, videos, social networking and many other applications coming into play and mobile Internet becoming more popular.

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