The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) announced that the customers of WellsSecure, a business unit of Wells Fargo Bank, will now access FAS’ premier online proposal submission program, e-Offer http://www.cio.gov/eauthentication by using WellsSecure digital certificates.
Bulgaria’s State Administration Minister Nikolay Vassilev officially opened the technical control centre of the country’s future e-Government.
India is aiming to provide 20 million broadband connections by the end of year 2010. Indian Communications & Information Technology Minister has set a target to provide nine million broadband connections in India.
Virtual Netcomm, which is based in Ahmedabad (India), is planning to enter into e-Governance.
In India, Goa has been considered as the best state of the country for its e-Governance initiatives at the summit organised in New Delhi by the Cyber Media India Ltd along with the Union Ministry of information technology.
Malta Government has launched two new services of e-Government to submit online applications for children allowance and supplementary allowances.
Tamil Nadu (TN) State Government has finalised a bid for 40,000 Lenovo desktops, which can be installed with both Novell’s Suse Linux and Microsoft’s Windows XP Starter Edition in Tamil Nadu, India. The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) will deploy the 40,000 Lenovo desktops in all schools and government departments of the state.
[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The Union Government of India has increased the allocation for e-Governance programmes by 82 per cent to INR 719 million to fund the ambitious programmes of e-Governance.
