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
In order to monitor the public grievance system, the Government of Himachal Pradesh has developed a new web-based program called
As part of the e-governance initiatives, the Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development has launched e-Gazette with the help of NIC and NICSI which will maintain Gazette Notifications on a date-wise, month-wise, part-wise and subject-wise basis. These data belongs to the Central Government and the Government of NCT of Delhi. However, the printed version of the Gazette will continue to exist along with the e-version of the same.
There is a plan to revamp the country’s largest e-governance project – MCA-21(Ministry of Corporate Affairs while 21 standing for 21st century reform), which enables e-filing of corproate information with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The Ministry will undertake the project along with Tata Consultancy Services.
