The Minnesota state legislature’s website has received the online democracy award for outstanding achievement in using design, content and technology to bring democracy closer to the citizens of Minnesota.
The government of India has directed all ministries and departments to submit a quarterly report on cyber security to the Intelligence Bureau in order to ensure that vital information stored in computers does not fall into wrong hands.
Denial of visa to UK and US to many meritorious Indians and perhaps sometimes to Africans is no more a news. But an innovative group of young people from Nigeria cheered this trend, voicing, ‘keep the visas, give us broadband
Lt. Governor Mukut Mithi has told the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Pondicherry, that the administration would soon announce steps to promote Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled Services (ITES) in the Union Territory by establishing an IT park.
The government of Australia has made a commitment to share information between public services to expand opportunities for the most disadvantaged, fight crime and provide better public services.
The Department of Information Technology (IT), Goa, is in the process of drawing up a proposal to launch a single web portal for government departments so that e-Governance becomes a reality.
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved US$10 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to the Government of Rwanda to install modern systems. The bank said that the assistance was aimed at improving the country’s operations and service delivery systems especially in rural areas, with a particular focus on the use of technology for growth and development.
The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has launched a new interactive Electronic Map of Dubai on its hugely-popular website.
In order to promote the use of Telugu as official language in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India, State Official Language Commission chairman, A.B.K. Prasad said computer training in Telugu would be imparted to all government employees and compact discs on Telugu script would be sent to all mandal offices in the state.
