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For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule
For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule

A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.

Bombay plans cyber cafe controls
Bombay plans cyber cafe controls

There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.

e-PCOs in Karnataka
e-PCOs in Karnataka

Now public call office (PCO) in Karnataka on its way to becoming e-kiosks.BSNL has tied up with Intel to upgrade PCOs into electronic information and transaction kiosks.

MDG 8 overview
MDG 8 overview

[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Multistakeholder partnership denotes to a collaborative process which aims to bring together all major stakeholders in a new form of communication, decision-finding and possibly decision-making on a particular issue.

Telecentre Movement in the Pacific
Telecentre Movement in the Pacific

[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Despite vibrant telecentre movement, emerging in the Pacific, Pacific telecentre initiatives face a real problem, which is the same old problem faced by the communities in which they are located

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