In recent years the role of the state in reaching out to its citizens has been largely evaluated on the basis of the degree of comfort the citizens have in accessing government services.
Salil Shetty is the Director of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Campaign.
Launched in India in July 2003, the Oracle-HP e-Governance Centre
Although the most talked about topic in IT sector, FOSS is yet to make its way beyond intellectual debates and reach out to the masses. Red Hat is an organisation generating the momentum of OSS movement, helping FOSS by taking its major applications operating system Linux, ahead. Javed Tapia talks to i4d on Red Hat
In an interview to i4d, Wijayananda Jayaweera discussed various aspects of CMC in the develop-ment. He has longstanding experience with projects using ICTs for development. He developed the CMC concept with the first pilot project implemen-ted in 1997 and led the recently concluded two year research project on ICTs and poverty reduction.
In an interview to i4d, Kapil Sibal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Ocean Development highlighted the importance of a national mapping policy, to be unveiled in the next six months.
i4d spoke to Alan Rossi on the strides made by Development Gateway Foundation under his leadership and just after the Forum meeting in Germany where the first Petersburg Prize was announced.
Please briefly describe the ICT4D initiatives taken up by UNESCO in Asia and India in particular. UNESCO’s vision is to […]
Connectivity in a limited area and an increasingly mobile workforce have fuelled the demand for wireless technologies.
