Idhasoft Aquisitions

Idhasoft successfully completes its 26th acquisition by acquiring 100% equity in Atlanta based $12 million Company called Enterpulse Inc.

e-Panchayat in Limbo

The tall project towards connecting all the panchayats across the country is in limbo, with the Panchayati Raj Ministry complaining that the Planning Commission and Finance Ministry are not too keen on allocating funds for it.

1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009

Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.The CSC roll out is part of Department of Information technology’s steps to support Infrastructure under the National E-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services. Department of Information Technology would provide calibrated support through policy interventions and appropriate financial support to create the basic infrastructure for these 100,000 proposed CSCs. All these CSCs are scheduled to be operational by July next year.

E-governance in all districts of Tamil Nadu soon

Soon Tamil Nadu will have fully computerised districts to promote e-governance in the state. While inaugurating the 43rd annual convention of the Computer Society of India (CSI) and the 25th South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation Conference, Chief Secretary K S Tripathy stated that the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy of the State Government would aim at broadbasing the IT industry in the State as part of the efforts to bring development as an inclusive phenomenon.

Laos invests in ICT to promote e-Governance

The Government of Laos is planning to invest US$35 millions of budget to digitise the country by developing ICT infrastructure to allow Laos people to get access to any electronic government services by next year.

Abu Dhabi completes e-Archiving of judicial data

The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) announced the completion of a major portion of its ambitious project of electronic archiving of cases. It involves archiving of around 32,300,000 judicial documents pertaining to over 669,000 cases in Abu Dhabi, Western Region and Al Ain.

Australia national web portal connects to Government services

The Government of Australia has created Australia.gov.au, a national Web site linking users to services and information to aid them at home, work and elsewhere.

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WiMAX: Enhancing Networks

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