Soon after Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Sambalpur University in Orissa (India) has introduced e-Governance at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crores received from the government under the twelfth finance commission for effective management at the University.
Travel services company in India, Yatra has launched its online services at www.yatra.com.to offer information, pricing, availability and reservations for airlines, hotels, railway, buses and car rentals across 5,000 cities and rural areas in the country.
UNESCO will launch an international community of practice on local e-Government through its ‘Information for All Programme’.
Using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Effective Disaster Management Caribbean Forum 2006 will be organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation and the International Telecommunication Union on September 26 to 28 in Jamaica.
The Vision 2020 project in Rwanda aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by ICT.
Bahwan Cybertek organised this seminar along with Adobe Systems and BSEEN International to showcase the services provided by Adobe Systems and BSEEN in the field of e-Governance at Sheraton Hotel in Oman.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Rwanda Office for Tourism and National Parks (ORTPN) has been selected to be a model for executing e-Tourism in Africa.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Government of India is planning to introduce e-Passports, also known as bio-metric passports.
Simputer is a mobile portable computer that works on high speed even on minimalist hardware support. Simputer only requires wireless network connection and backend server to become operational.
