Government of India to establish G-2-B portal for investors soon

The Government of India will soon establish a government-to-business (G-2-B) portal in order to provide easy communication and service linkage to foreign and domestic investors.

Yatra releases online services at www.yatra.com

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 to launch ‘community of practice’ on local e-Government

UNESCO will launch an international community of practice on local e-Government through its ‘Information for All Programme’.

ICT for Effective Disaster Management Caribbean Forum 2006 to be held in Jamaica

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.

Sambalpur University (India) receives fund under e-Governance

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.

Wired future for Rwanda soon

The Vision 2020 project in Rwanda aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by ICT.

e-Government scores stabilised in USA

According to the Executive Branch Management Scorecard (USA), after a quarter of falling, e-Government scores on the President

Right to Information Act

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Editorial

Telecommunication in India

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Government of India is planning to introduce e-Passports, also known as bio-metric passports.

What’s On

[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

BJP has laid out a grand vision for transforming India and empowering Bharat using the power of information technology (IT)