Vietnamese enterprises can now apply for C/O online
The Vietnamese Ministry of Trade and Industry has launched eCoSys, a system designed to grant and manage Certificates of Origin (C/Os) online through the website www.ecvn.com.
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Latvia plans e-voting for 2009 elections
The Latvia Government is planning to allow voters to cast ballots by Internet in elections in 2009. The e-voting system should be up and running by March 2009, when Latvia’s 1.45-million-strong electorate is due to go to the polls in municipal elections.
CS for universalization of e-governance in Govt. Deptts
e-Governance is an important tool for providing effective, transparent and responsive administrative matters delivery system, according to BR Kundal, Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir.
VillageRoad3 opens the way for rural Internet access in Estonia
The VillageRoad, an Estonian project is aiming to extend access to broadband Internet connections in remote rural areas of Estonia. The project is part of Estonia
AMARC, Senate passes community radio broadcasting bill
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the Uruguayan Senate has approved a Community Broadcasting Bill that recognizes community broadcasting in its own right and says television and radio frequencies should be more equitably distributed.
Gujarat wins the award for best e-governed state
Gujarat has received the Best e-Governed State Award for 2006-2007 year at the convention of 42nd Computer Society of India (CSI). Gujarat has received awards in four categories, best e-Governed state, best e-Governed Department (health and family welfare), best e-Governance G2B project for e-Procurement and also for VAT Informations System.
Rs 600 crores approved by the Government of India, to improve CBEC services.
Rs 600-crore has been allocated for the computerisation programme for Central Board of Customs and Excise (CBEC) over a period of 5 years.
Government of India Seeks to Enable e-Governance through SOA
The Government of India is looking at Service Oriented Architechture (SOA) to bring greater efficiencies to administrative processes and to enable e-Governance. The National Informatics Center (NIC) has been entrusted to introduce e-Governance standards, which will be based on SOA.
IT superpower India not a hot spot for Wi-Fi
India is lacking behind in the index of the world Wi-Fi rankings. India has only 454 public Wi-Fi hotspots. While US leads the Wi-Fi hotspot index with 64,670 public hotspots followed by UK (30,613), Germany (21,236) and France (22,799) hotspots.
e-Gram Sampark Center Inaugurated in Chandigarh, India
On 26th November,2007, the Chandigarh Administration inaugurated an e-Gram Sampark Center at Village Behlana as a part of the drive to provide e-Governance services to empower the rural people of union territory.
