In a multilingual country like India, where rural population constitutes a majority segment, the growth of IT usage gets restricted due to lack of language computing or the knowledge of it. Hence in order to overcome this hurdle, the Government of Kerela, announced Malayalam computing initiative, whereby it tries to bridge the technology-language divide and helps in its smooth operating by the people.
The National Spot Exchange (NSEL) of India in association with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) has been appointed to upgrade the working of the existing network of Common Service Centres (CSCs) which are a part of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of India. Both the organisations will work towards the development of synergies between the NSEL and CSC projects which will provide e-trading platform to the farmers.
From this year onwards, the Bihar government has decided to use mobile phones in monitoring of floods within the state. This is indicated by Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar during the launch of the Mobile Inspection System which is first of its kind in the state.
To help in improving the planning of roads and public transportation, Kyoto University and IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory have jointly come up with a system which can stimulate in predicting the urban transport situations.
The official website of the state of Utah, Utah.gov, is the recipient of the 2008 Best of State award in the category of Community Development, due to its extensive services rendered, to over more than 1000 citizens of that state.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced that the villagers in West Bengal from July onwards can submit their landline and mobile phone bills through Common Service Centres (CSCs) or Tathya Mitra Kendras set up by Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited across 14 districts of the state under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).
The Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram stated that biometric Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards will be introduced to the income tax payers of the country. In the first phase, these will be issued to new applicants.
The Publications Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India decided to make its magazine ‘Yojana’ available online. […]
In the upcoming Lok Sabha next year, Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to use technologies such as free and open-source software, which will bring video conferencing, Internet telephony and unified communication to approximately four million party workers by the year 2011.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a White Paper released stated that it will launch a five point plan for effective e-governance in the country. The road
