Prime agency for the implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), is itself violating the Act by publishing misleading information on its website, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has claimed…
Data center capabilities are posed to rise in India, with Sify Technologies all ready to invest INR 300 Crore in the next eighteen months. Sify Technologies is also looking towards setting up data centers worldwide, starting from the Asian countries…
A national survey on e-governance has placed West Bengal among the bottom three, ahead of just Jharkhand and Bihar. West Bengal was ranked 19th among 21 states surveyed, with only Jharkhand and Bihar ranked below it. The survey was done by International Data Corporate (IDC)…
The property tax website of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has been awarded ‘Best e- Governed Project,’ at the Computers Society of India-Nihilent e- Governance Awards 2007-08…
Third National Consultation with the central theme of ‘ICT for rural Inclusion: Access, Empowerment, Employability’ will be hosted by NASSCOM Foundation (NF), the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of NASSCOM…
The National Contact Centre (NCC) for Government Services, is being launched by Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Jordan. This NCC for Government Services would make way for an unique way to experience revamped governmental services in terms of availability, accessibility and reliability for citizens of Jordan…
Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) was handed the ‘Best e-Government Initiative’ Award at the Arabian Business Awards for 2008.
Bharti Airtel, has been awarded the ‘Best Project Management’ for the Gujarat e-GRAM project at the World Communication Awards 2008…
Revival of the Goa’s e-governance project at the Margao municipal council (MMC) seems evident. Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat has promised MMC chairperson Savio Coutinho that he would take up the matter with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and work towards the revival of citizens’ facilitation centre…
Speaking in the Lok Sabha yesterday Minister of Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja informed that there are a total of 4.98 million Broadband subscribers in the country as on 31st October 2008. A list of State-wise number of Broadband subscribers is given below…
