Realising the importance of data standards for rapid progress in e-governance applications, the Andhra Pradesh Government has initiated a study to examine the best practices world over and suggest a way forward, according to the State Chief Information Officer and Secretary of Information Technology and Communications, Mr Subbarao Ghanta.
THE Government is fostering a PKI (public key infrastructure) regime and the four certifying authorities have already issued over 20,000 digital certificates, according to the Information Technology (IT) Secretary, Mr K.K. Jaswal.
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has promised to invest Rs 60,000 crore in the next five years for the development of rural and agriculture infrastructure.
The black economic empowerment (BEE) charter on information communications technology (ICT) is not merely being implemented to create a black middle class but to ensure that South Africa becomes an information society through the bridging of the digital divide while increasing the number of participants in the economy, Advocate Dali Mpofu said on Tuesday.
The Maharashtra government is considering a proposal to set up a rural empowerment project for women with an initial corpus of Rs 280 crore.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is understood to be gearing up banks for a national launch of its online income tax collection from April 1.
[This article was published in the February 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Communicating basic ICT skills to children requires considerable innovation and effort on the part of the teacher.
[This article was published in the February 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The marginalization of the Muslim minority from the mainstream development is well known. As IT and its role in growth and globalization are established, this may not only further marginalize Muslims from the national mainstream but also threaten their place in world development.
[This article was published in the January 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
ICT can play a major role in the fight against poverty and at the same time, it is precisely in the context of the fight against poverty that these new technologies can help to reduce the digital gap most effectively
[This article was published in the January 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Through holistic approach to security at each tier of the network the organizations are able to reduce cost, improve manageability, enhance performance, tighten security and reduce risk exposure
