Bringing People Together and Aligning Effectively is Important : Astrid Dufborg, Executive Director, GeSCI

GeSCI works at the local, national, and international level to support, to create, and to implement strategies to harness Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) for education and community growth.

I T would simplify process of supply of information : Madhavan G, State Information Commission, Chandigarh, Haryana, India

The RTI Act envisages the role of a watchdog to the State Information Commission in ensuring the implementation of the Act both in letter and spirit. Says Madhavan G., Chief Information Commissioner, State Information Commission, Chandigarh, Haryana.

In Uttaranchal, we are at an advantageous position regarding e-Governance : Sanjeev Chopra, IT Secretary, Uttaranchal, India, India

Uttaranchal is at fairly an advantageous position as compared to the rest of the country. All treasuries are computerised. The payroll is entirely computerised. It is the first state in the country to do that. e-Governance would be internalized in the functioning of the government, says Sanjeev Chopra, Uttaranchal IT Secretary, in conversation to
Prachi Shirur of egov

Using Right to Information to its fullest capacity is challenging : Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, Government of India, India

Being an intrinsic part of democracy, the Right to Information should have come soon after we became a democracy. It has come a little after than it should have come, admits Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner, Government of India, in an interview to Anuradha Dhar & Prachi Shirur of egov

Believing in Connected Government : James Shoon Loi Yong, Director, Public Sector Programs

e-Government is an area that is constantly changing. One can find many innovative ways in the deployment of e-Government applications across Asia. There is rarely any “one-size-fits-all” theory being implemented, argues James Shoon Loi Yong, Director, Public Sector Programs

‘In Uttaranchal, we are at an advantageous position regarding e-Governance’

[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

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Barriers are many, but conquering follows : Shyam Sankar Prasad, State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Jharkhand

Shyam Sankar Prasad, the Jharkhand State Project Director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, elaborates on the flagship education initiative of India while interacting face to face with Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastav of Digital Learning.

Practicing e-content:Bringing Excellence in English Language Training : Vivek Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, LIQVID, India

‘LIQVID’, the e-learning company, which by definition means to take the shape of the mould, is built upon the idea […]

Providing enterprise content management solutions : Sanjay Aurora, Regional Vice President, Interwoven

Interwoven, Inc. is the leader in enterprise content management solutions for business, enables organizations to unify people, content and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time-to-value and sustain lower total cost of ownership. In an exclusive interview to Anuradha Dhar of egov, Sanjay Aurora, Regional Vice President, South Asia / Hong Kong, informs about advantages of their solutions and their success stories in e-Government initiatives

Change-management is difficult to handle : P H Kurian, IT Secretary, Kerala

We believe that for a state like Kerala, which has 100 percent literacy and large number of people living outside […]