Ensuring Environmental sustainability

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

nformation and Communications Technology (ICT) can play a significant role in addressing some of the key challenges, including sharing of knowledge and expertise, some of which are covered in this special issue on ICTs and Environment. This issue of i4d focuses on how a more connected world is learning from each other, sharing valuable data and information, forming alliances and advocating for the issues relating to environmental sustainability.

Seven Strategic Areas for ICT and Environment

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

ICT development will not contribute to the acceleration of the current negative trends, but will instead contribute towards sustainable development. A limited number of areas need to be prioritised to start with.

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.

Citizen Service Centres: Ensuring efficient delivery of services

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Computerisation and automation of government departments and processes does not alone make a government an e-Government unless they use ICT to deliver the services to the citizens in an efficient, fast and hassle-free manner.

Critical success factors for ensuring better services

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The enabling role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the delivery of services in the public and government sector has now gained acceptance.

‘Rights’ to information, or & ‘obligations’to society?

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Over the past three years Roger Longhorn, Max Craglia and I have been trying to understand the emotions and principles of the debates surrounding rights of access to information, particularly to information produced by government (PSI

Prospecting rural ICT business

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Drishtee is an India-based organisational platform that provides IT enable services to rural population through a network of village kiosks,

Good practices in e-Governance: Main issues and challenges

Information Technology (IT) has become a vital instrument in various aspects of human endeavour and practices in the West. In […]

e-Collectorate

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The effective village-level services aggregated at the district level using the state of art communication technology becomes a viable model having the data centre in the district.
e-Collectorate of Palakkad district, Kerala, is one such model, which uses DC* suite, specially designed and implemented using open source technologies to bridge the services of collectorate and citizens who consume it.

Sampark: e-Governance Centre

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

A recent visit by egov team to Chandigarh brings out this first-hand report on the city