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.

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Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, India

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Women

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BUSINESS NEWS

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

BUSINESS NEWS

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Financial Inclusion: A Global Perspective

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Introduction
According to the UK Financial Inclusion Taskforce, there are three main concerns in financial inclusion; access to banking, access to affordable credit and access to free face-to-face financial advice.

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Internet Ticketing Project

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Generally favourable attitude to ICTs amongst the SMEs surveyed, suggests a failure to recognise ICTs

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Hand in Hand, India

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Lessons learnt
It has been deliberated and discussed, in detail, in the recently concluded 8th Annual Baramati Initiative, on the importance of reaching the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in India, especially to the areas that are normally out of reach, where the interventions of tele-Education, tele-Medicine and tele-Governance, in addition to a plethora of innovative services such as smart card accessing, simputering and mobile banking, can be made possible.

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ICT potentials in agriculture

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Background
Noboby can gainsay the role of ICTs in modern agriculture and farming practices. To understand the present scenario and to explore further scopes,

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SKS Microfinance, India

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

SKS Microfinance is working extensively on rural credit and microfinance and trying to identify feasible financial solutions for the rural Indian folk.

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Asia news

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Asia News

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Financing India’s Healthcare Infrastructure Needs

[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The concept of an Inflection Point suggests that there are critical points in the history of an industry or an individual company that signal permanent and enduring change.

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