Singapore’s highly efficient public services run by the government has walked away with global prizes in the e-Government sector for the last five years. Singapore has now embarked on a $ 2 billion initiative to change e-Governance to integrated government or i-Gov by 2010 with the use of latest infocomm technologies.
The Manilla-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced its $20 million pact with the Republic of Korea that will help the Bank to assist its member countries to achieve MDGs with strategic uses of ICTs.
Karnataka is the first state in India to bring the public distribution system under
The Government of India is planning for a capacity building programme that seeks to draw upon outside expertise about 500 professionals on a contract basis with project management and process re-engineering skills to assist various agencies in implementing e-Governance projects.
ictQatar has signed an agreement with the ICDL GCC Foundation as part of its e-Citizen initiative, which aims to raise IT awareness levels and increase the usage of computers and the Internet.
Sahara Computers and Electronics Ltd (SCEL), a joint venture between South Africa’s Sahara Computers Ltd and the Sahara India Pariwar, could soon offer laptops below Rs.25,000.
Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Jamaica, stated that the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Youth and the technology arm of his Ministry, as one that had resulted in the creation of an effective Information Communication Technology (ICT) policy for the country.
Going a step ahead of e-Ticketing, the Indian Railway is thinking on the lines of introducing home delivery of tickets. Indian Railway is in talk with Reliance Infocomm for developing a programme to make ticketing via SMS possible. The Railway Ministry believes that this could turn out to be a money churner.
The ministry of National Economy and Omantel have signed an agreement to design, implement and manage a unified e-Government network. The agreement comes as part of the government’s plans to realise the Digital Oman initiative and e-Governance.
The Union Government of India is likely to add a new project called `e-District’ to the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) to cover local high-volume services.
