[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Community media is fundamentally about subversion, a democratic project tucked away from the mainstream, a site of symbolic resistance and new meanings, where social actors continually question and re-etch the boundaries of domination.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Fives years ago, in the midst of a winter that seemed determined not to end, CORE-ECS visited the offices of the Michigan Department of Education
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There are several epistemological shortcomings within Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) literature.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. announced the winners of its second
Microsoft has launched a new solution for managing the Indian Panchayati Raj system, called SWARAJ during Government Leadership summit in Delhi. The solution addresses the information needs for all the five tiers of Panchayati Raj which include Ministry of Panchayati Raj at the Central Level, Panchayati Raj Departments at State level, District Administration at the District level, Panchayat Samitis/BDOs at the Block and Gram Panchayats at the Village level.
In an effort to reach out the masses, Delhi’s district and lower courts have come with a Hindi website also. This initiative was taken up by the Hindi Karyanvan Committee (Hindi Implementation Committee) and it would be inaugurated on December 3, 2007.
The Union Communication and Information Technology Minister A. Raja stated that the new telecom policies would be issued as per the existing telecom policy, which will not put any restriction on the number of operators.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established 291 Village Resource Centres (VRCs) to provide integrated services, including tele-education, tele-medicine, natural resources information and skill development in rural India.
The Government of India has developed a mechanism for the implementation of Right to Information (RTI) Act into the e-Governance scheme of the Centre.
