UAE to boost e-Government plan
The UAE Government is planning to accelerate the implementation of the e-Government by making 50 percent of government services online by the end of the year 2008 and 90 percent by the year 2020.
The UAE Government is planning to accelerate the implementation of the e-Government by making 50 percent of government services online by the end of the year 2008 and 90 percent by the year 2020.
The Police Department of Maharashtra (India) is going to open a Cyber Crime Police Station to improve the detection of cyber crime. Maharashtra’s first, full-fledged, dedicated Cyber Crime Police Station will start functioning in Bandra-Kurla Complex Police Station in Bandra.
The e-Governance Department of Bangalore (India) has developed a software to track of all petitions forwarded by the governor to the various departments of the state. This initiative would be the next step of Janata Darshan.
The Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam is planning to expand the use of information technology in 2008 with the building e-Government services.
The Government of Punjab is taking e-Governance initiative on a wider scale to reduce administrative cost and raise efficiency instead of streamlining the processes of recruitment, budgeting and planning.
The Employee’s Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) of India had started the project ‘reinventing EPF India’ seven years ago, that was to provide online access of Provident Fund accounts and services to about 4 crore citizens of the country. However after INR 2,500 million having been spent, the UPA government is all set to scrap the project and start all over again.
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), India has decided to upgrade the state portal. Presently
The state government of Bihar, India is working on six major e-Governance initiatives worth INR 1.6 million with Tata Consultancy services (TCS).
Soon in India, the Gram Panchayat President or Sarpanch will be able to monitor panchayat centric schemes do financial accounting and reporting, keep records of gram sabha and panchayat meetings
The Bureau of Customs (BoC), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), Philippines are expecting to start implementing the e-Governance project aimed at improving their business-related processes.