The Cabinet of India will take up the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) Phase I for approval. The multi-million dollar project partly funded by the World Bank, would pave the way for implementation of mission mode projects for radically improving the efficiency of governance in the country through the adoption of information technology tools, if approved.
Australia is at the forefront of e-Government practice. This was announced by Gary Nairn at the e-Gov Forum at CeBIT, in Australia.
Saudi Arabia has allocated USD 799 million to set up infrastructure facilities required for providing 150 e-Government services within the next five years.
In a bid to bridge digital divide, India is embarking on an ambitious project to connect 600,000 villages. Called as
Engineering students in Karnataka will now handle e-Governance initiatives of the state government. In a novel scheme aimed at addressing e-Governance glitches faced by several government departments, the Board for IT Education Standards (BITES) in association with the IT department and IBM has launched Project INVITE (Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant Information Technology Ecosystem).
The Mozambican Justice Ministry launched the long overdue computerisation of the Criminal Record Registry. Initially this computerised service will only be available in Maputo and in Quelimane, capital of the central province of Zambezia. It will later be extended to the other provinces.
Hughes, a major company in satellite networking technology is holding talks with the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government in India for providing e-Governance solutions.
Accra, Ghana (Africa) organised a two-day seminar on e-Governance on 4-5 May 2006. The seminar urged the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to develop their own websites so that they could disseminate information online to the public to save time and cost.
The recent e-Governance readiness report compiled in a report by the United Nations Department of Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA), informs about the increasing trend of e-Government readiness in UAE which reached 50 percent as compared to 91 percent for United States, which is leading the index.
Satellite networking company, Hughes, is holding talks with the Uttar Pradesh government for providing e-government solutions.
