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 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-crore has been allocated for the computerisation programme for Central Board of Customs and Excise (CBEC) over a period of 5 years.
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.
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.
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.
The Government of Delhi along with the Survey of India and the National Mapping Agency has recently launcehd the Delhi State Spatial Infrastructure (DSSDI) project.th November, 2007, by . An outcome of a pilot project of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, the DSSDI project will help the state government to provide better disaster management and security covers of valuable infrastructure.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India released draft recommendations on provision of IPTV services.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd., has launched next generation products for the Air and Power divisions namely Liebert XD series, Liebert PeX, Liebert NXa and Super 400 D.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
