[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There has been a continuing debate on when, where, what and how technology should be integrated with education at various levels, primary to higher.
The Kenya Government and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have entered into a Sh67 billion partnership to establish East Africa
Qualcomm has partnered with a cadre of international business and government partners of Sri-Lanka to create a series of high speed Internet centres in towns outside Colombo.
The Estonian Tax and Customs Board has offered a new eService to local authorities, which will allow them to make inquiries on the income of the taxpayers living in their area.
The Head of Kuwait-based Information Technology Center Ali Al-Shareeda announced that soon the centre will introduce e-Governance services as a part of country’s e-government project in February 2008.
Indian Government is expecting that the government has provided about 2.5 million in more than 1,000 towns in the country by the end of June, 2007.
The flagship project of Indian IT Ministry in e-Governance, the INR 3,000 crore State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project under the US$ 6 billion NeGP (National e-Governance Plan) is now facing delays in several states.
Around 1 million USA green card holders have to pay US$ 370 and get their cards renewed.
Oman has become the first country in the Middle East to adopt e-admissions for students, who are wiling for higher education courses.
Dr. Pankaj Jalote, Professor at IIT Delhi’s computer science and engineering department is designing a information sharing model to integrate the verification process of government departments.
