The Andhra Pradesh state government in India will enter into Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with a dozen firms during the fifth edition of GITEX-India 2006 which will translate into investment of Rs 457 crore and about 24,000 jobs in the southern Indian cities Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.
President Mugabe’s Information and Communication Technology(ICT) drive in Zimbabwe suffered a major setback after reports that most of the computers that he donated to schools in the run up to 2005 parliamentary elections are dead.
Indian Railway (IR) will set up call centres for customer care and to provide several utilities.
The Supreme Court (SC) in Philippines has unveiled an Internet-based e-Payment system that will allow lawyers and litigants to pay various legal fees online and at the same time enable the judicial hierarchy to electronically assess and monitor payment transactions.
The Government of the Indian state Karnataka, in collaboration with Intel, has announced ‘Gyanodaya’, a Government Assisted PC Purchase Program which aims to encourage PC adoption among State Government employees and bridge the digital divide by providing easy and affordable PC purchase options.
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in India has stepped up efforts to go in for large scale e-Governance with a total investment of Rs 100 crore during next fiscal.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is hopeful of launching the high-speed, high-performance computing grid, connecting 17 locations and 40 premier institutes in India.
The Mozambican government and the computer giant Microsoft adopted a plan of action under which Mozambique will benefit from funding and computer products from Microsoft in order to implement the government’s computerisation programme.
Tobacco major ITC Ltd plans to invest US$1 billion over a period of seven to ten years in its ongoing […]
The Grameen Sanchar Sewak (GSS) scheme, an ambitious pilot project to introduce rural mobile services kickstarted by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Lmited (BSNL) and the Department of Posts in 2002, is ready to be regularised and go national, after a resounding triumph in the Indian state West Bengal.
