[This article was published in the January 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India has been talking about e-Governance for the last seven to eight years. With an anarchic Constitutional and administrative system in place, there is hardly any role for e-Governance. However, it would be better to say that India is still in the phase of learning e-Governance
[This article was published in the January 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
ICT penetrates all parts of political decision-making. This article deals with the kind of challenges ICT poses in the present form to societal governance and democratic control
[This article was published in the January 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The opportunity cost of achieving development through Information Technology is huge due to the high cost of proprietary software. More and more governments are looking towards Open Source solutions to address economic issues
[This article was published in the December 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Developing countries are suffering from the brain drain and generally low levels of education and literacy, which have together resulted in a great scarcity of skills and expertise.
[This article was published in the December 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In the developing countries, ICTs can transform old challenges and create unprecedented possibilities for sustainable economic development, just as it has done for business in the industrial world.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
This article envisions how open source software would cater to the needs of rural India in 2020. A much needed change in policy at the government level is required to take open source to the grassroots.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
IOSN is a centre of excellence for FOSS in the Asia-Pacific region. It is tasked specifically to accelerate the adoption of FOSS by facilitating and networking relevant technologists, advocates, institutions and end-users.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Free/GNU platform was making strides on software front in many ways but a little slowly on Indian languages. But this slowness was steadily towards universal standards and hence almost deliberate.
[This article was published in the August 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Anna University today is in a position to offer consultancy to the entire country on setting up of community radio stations as well as training personnel for it.
[This article was published in the August 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Radio has affinity with oral, non-literate cultures, it can easily reflect and generate debate on local concerns, needs, priorities and issues.
