The US Government Accountability Office has begun uploading its videos on YouTube and has established feeds on the Twitter service to announce release of new documents and reports to reach out to more people.
A new website providing a range of historical information on United Kingdom from the last 2,000 years has become online.
The Rajasthan Transport department has embarked on a massive e-governance mission under which all its records will be computerised, even at the level of the district transport office (DTO).
DoT has sought Cabinet sanction for INR 9,970-crore optic fibre communications network for the defence forces. The forces will migrate a bulk of their communication systems to this alternate network, being built by state-owned telcos BSNL and MTNL.
The government plans to connect every panchayat to a broadband network as part of its ambitious target to drastically improve infrastructure in the villages under its Bharat Nirman (Build India) programme.
Entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has been chosen to lead the government’s ambitious project of providing its 1.1 billion-plus citizens with ID cards.
Ambitious INR 2 crore three-year project to link India’s 14,000 police stations via a cyber highway approved by the Cabinet.
A biometric attendance system is being introduced in five district courts of Delhi in order to maintain discipline among the court staff and improve work culture.
Singapore based IT company, Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is working with ictQATAR to establish a new e-government project. The project called Qatar Services Infrastructure (QSi) project, a fast developing e-government initiative, will provide the government of Qatar with a rich and highly integrated centralised software platform, which helps accelerate the delivery of public e-services on the Internet.
The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.
