Right to Information Act comes into force in India
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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LOKVANI: An (e)ffort to (e)mpower citizens
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Lokvani is an innovative model of Citizen Service Centres (CSCs) implemented in district Sitapur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a self sustainable solution, wherein the existing cyber cafes are being leveraged to act as franchisees, benefiting the citizens, the administration and the kiosks operators.
e-Governance implementation in Government of Pondicherry (GoP) – a holistic approach
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Owing to the fast progress of the state of West Bengal in recent years in IT and e-Governance services, it is now being counted as one among the leading states in e-Governance along with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.
Information Technology Institute for the Tribes of India (ITITI)
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
HASTAC (Humanties, Art, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers from the nation
Web-based personnel administration for government
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Personnel Information Management System (PIMS) implemented in Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) has brought about transparency and smooth personnel administration. Hands-on training sessions and commitment of top management has helped in overcoming many implementation challenges.
User attitudes to e-Government citizen services in Europe
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Good governance rests on the pillars of knowledge where information should be acquired and used strategically for public purposes. e-Governance helps in dissemination of useful governance information, which already exists in the public domain into the wider public domain through the use of ICT.
Empowering communities through knowledge (ECKO)
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In 2005, the eUSER project undertook a questionnaire survey covering approximately 10,000 households in ten European Union Member States. Some very interesting initial results inform that face-to-face contact is still the most important channel for contacting government in Europe and One quarter of individual eGovernment users have acted as intermediaries for family members or friends.
Case of e-Governed Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC)
[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There are many experiments going on in India in various fields of activities for introducing electronic governance in brick and mortar government organisations.
Everything starts with an idea
[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In the midst of one of those conferences filled with formal speeches, Ravi Gupta lent across the table and asked something in a conspiratorial tone.
e-Revolution 2005
[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.
