Software Product Certification For e-Governance Initiative

First of its kind in India, the Union ministry of communications and IT has decided to set up a certification facility for software security products,in Kolkata, according to BJ Srinath, senior director of the ministry’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In). It would be an important initiative for state governments and various government institutions as it will create security zones for the various e-governance applications, thereby curbing cyber crimes in e-governance.

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e-Governance’s wants ODF

Open Document Format (ODF) could become an open standard for e-governance projects by the Indian government. This initiative would then […]

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e-Managed Civic Hospitals in Mumbai

The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to link all its hospitals and healthcare centres through a computerised network, in a move to boost its e-governance plan.

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Health Management Information System Portal Launched

The portal will help converting the data locally into useful information, management indicators, trends etc which could be displayed graphically in the reports. The new system envisages enhancing the information flow at various levels and providing useful and timely inputs for programme development, monitoring and midcourse interventions in the policies.

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PM on Global Financial Crisis

…Our banks, both in the public sector and in the private sector, are financially sound, well capitalised and well regulated. There should be no fear of a failure of any bank. In particular, I wish to assure depositors in our banks that their deposits are entirely safe,

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e-Enabled Government Municipal Corporation

Renewing trade licences and getting a building permission will no more be as time consuming and tiring as it is now. For the slow-paced manual work of the Government Municipal Corporation will soon make way for complete e-governance.Under the National Mission Mode Programme (NMMP)

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U.S. Telemedicine Project in Pakistan

Through a public-private partnership, the U.S. Department of State has launched a telemedicine service in Pakistan, thereby taking the transformative power of high speed connectivity to improving social services in remote areas.

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NREGS Now has Electronic Grievance Redressal

In order to ensure transparency, the Orissa government plans to introduce the electronic grievance redressal system (EGRS) in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), for the NREGS job seekers in the state.

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Citizen & Stratergy Makers Connected to Fight Corruption

In an attempt to improve public services, the Madhya Pradesh government, in association with Omnia BPO Services Limited, plans to launch a government-to-citizen (G2C) project — a helpdesk for its citizens.

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Passport Alerts on Mobile

Passport Seva Project- The good news for ‘aam janta’ is that apart from the information of the progress of the passprt applications on web they would also be receiving alerts on their mobile numbers, that have been provided during filling of application, about the status of their application.

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