HPCL opens e-fuel station in AP city
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) opened its new e-fuel station in the city.
International
e-Governance project gets major CBC boost
The drive towards e-governance for Kenya and other African countries has received a major boost from the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and EzGov Europe.
For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.
IT Governance Forum at end of January
IT Governance practitioners are scheduled to get together to discuss topical issues at the IT Governance Forum to be held at the VW Conference Centre in Midrand on 28 and 29 January.
Bombay plans cyber cafe controls
There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.
E-Rulemaking team studies three technical directions
By month’s end, a final architecture for the E-Rulemaking project will be set.
Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft’s Government Leadership Forum for the region
Under the auspices of H.E. President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is hosting the first Arab Government Leaders Forum in the Middle East
Lucknow to become the model centre for e-Governance
Following the footsteps of Karnataka, Lucknow, the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India will become the first city in the state to become a model centre for e-Governance.
Proposal for joint certification of e-governance products
The Minister for IT and Communications of India, Mr Dayanidhi Maran said at a national seminar on e-governance in municipalities that a shortcoming of the Indian IT industry was its failure to come up with world-class products. According priority to e-governance plan for improving service delivery to citizens and businesses, he has proposed enabling certification of products in e-governance domain, jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development.
Indian IT minister puts e-Gov action plan in top priority
Union minister for communications and information technology, Dayanidhi Maran emphasised the extensive use of ICTs in day-to-day management of urban local bodies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations.
