Net facilities for bill payment in Mizoram, India
The Power Department of Mizoram (India) has introduced a new service to pay electric bills through Internet within Aizawl.
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India to be 97% broadband enabled by 2012
The Planning Commission of India has disclosed its 11th five year plan for 2008-2012, in which it claimed that 97 percent population will be broadband enabled.
DoT setting up another panel on spectrum allocation
The Department of Telecom has constituted a new committee, headed by its member technology K Sridhara to study the spectrum panel
Punjab Govt. launches e-governance pilot project
The Department of Punjab State Government has decided to computerise the Municipals Corporations and Councils in the state. The Punjab Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft for the pilot project.
DoT begins phase II rural mobile project in India
The Department of Telecom is planning to roll out second phase of the rural mobile project. In its second phase, DoT will roll out another 11,000 cellular towers across 2.4 lakh unconnected villages under the Universal Services Obligation fund.
Call for broadband community centres in Malaysia
Alcatel-Lucent is bringing broadband based community centres in order to deliver high-speed Internet services to rural folk in Malaysia.
Reuters Market Light now available in local post offices
Reuters Ltd has partnered with the Maharashtra Postal Department to distribute sell and support Reuters Market Light (‘RML’) service across the state.
KL to be ‘wireless’ city from mid 2008
Kuala Lumpur is going to become a ‘wireless city with free wireless internet coverage for two years. The Wi-Fi facility will make it possible for 80 percent of the federal capital
Spain’s eGovernment Portal now offers access to 565 national, regional and local public services
www.060.es is the first portal to give unified electronic access to Spain’s public services. The new version of the portal will now provide 565 services, which can be viewable from the website.
NADRA plans to create citizens
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) of Pakistan is creating a citizens database, which will eliminate identity theft from the country. The national database will eliminate identity theft, which formed on the basis of all e-Governance regimes including e-Commerce and cyber security.
