Afghan Telecom, Roshan tie up for utilising OFC Backbone Ring Network
Afghan Telecom (AT) has announced an agreement with Roshan to sell the transmission capacity of its National OFC Backbone Ring Network. This will complement Roshan’s structure while enabling it to provide additional capacity for its growing number of subscribers.
News: June 2009
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
New e-Govt Project gets Singapore Firm
MTN invests in $700m Europe-India cable
The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.
Sectoral Coherence for Better Governance : Philippe Dongier, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank
“The effectiveness of the investments will be much higher and the expenditure by the government will be more efficient if there are key horizontals to enable coherence of investments and approaches across different sectors, ministries and levels of government” says Philippe Dongier, Sector Manager, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank to egov magazine.
SPANCO bagged INR 70 crore SWAN project in Indian state – Orissa
Spanco Telesystems and Solutions bagged a INR 70 crore contract for rolling out State Wide Area Network (SWAN) under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) which will connect over 300 districts and talukas in the eastern coastal Indian state of Orissa.
e-Banking Technology, Estonia
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Background
Estonia is internationally renowned for being a pioneer in the adaptation to new banking technologies. Estonia is currently belonging to the country group of medium Internet penetration on the global scale outnumbering its Baltic neighbours and Eastern-European countries but being somewhat behind from the Scandinavian countries, USA, Canada, leading European countries and some Asian countries.
Extention of ICTs to youth in Vietnam
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The linkage between university and disadvantaged communities in creating opportunities to access updated information, has been considered a successful model.
Improved broadband provisioning for new developments by Telkom
Telkom will upgrade their Property Development (PD) Connect initiative to ensure that new developments are enabled with state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure, including broadband.
TTF for sub-Saharan Africa
In the conclusions of the first meeting of the Telemedicine Task Force (TTF) for sub-Saharan Africa was held in Brussels, the potential of satellite telecommunication technology was demonstrated as a tool for supporting healthcare systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
