Plan outlined for county-wide wireless access in Columbiana

Columbiana County Port Authority is planning for country-wide wireless Internet access. The council has formed a group to promote technological advancement in the East Liverpool area.

NADRA develops e-Toll system to ease traffic congestion

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has developed e-Toll system to ease movement of vehicles and full proof accounting of vehicles in Pakistan.

ADB funds for e-initiative in Assam, India

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has given a proposal to provide technical assistance for deploying innovative ICT skills for supporting the e-governance initiative in Assam (India).

Uttar Pradesh (India) expecting networking across the state

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) to soon complete networking across the state, so that the state government can launch the Uttar Pradesh State Wide Area Network (UPSWAN) on January 1, 2008.

DoT plans to auction for 3G spectrum

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India has decided to go for open auction of spectrum for 3G services, including mobile services, which will provide high-speed data over the Internet to users.

Kuwait Central Agency for IT adopts ICDL digital literacy programs

The Kuwaiti Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT), has partnered with the ICDL GCC Foundation, certification authority of the International Computer Driving License program in the Gulf States to implement the IDCL and e-Citizen programs as part of a nationwide effort to increase digital awareness within the government workplace and society.

South Africa adopts Open Source Software Policy

The Government of South Africa is planning to adopt a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) policy, which is a significant boost for the industry according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.

Deployment of ATM machines on mobile Molue (buses) in Nigeria

The Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) will install 1000 ATM machines at various locations of Nigeria in partnership with a Private Business. NITDA will provide Mobile Internet Units, which are minivans specially fitted with Internet access to the CHAMS Consortium.

Recognition for IT entrepreneurship

[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The first APC FOSS Prize established in 2006 to honour Chris Nicol(http://www.apc.org/english/chrisnicol), a long time FOSS advocate and activist who for many years, worked with APC has been jointly awarded to: Free Geek (USA) and NepaLinux (Nepal).

Blogging in the Classroom

[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

That question posed to me by a teacher the other day truly warmed the cockles of my heart (pardon the quaint expression).