Microsoft to set up 50,000 kiosks in Indian villages
Microsoft has already pledged to set up 50,000 kiosks in Indian villages offering an array of public services.
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With the advent of new networking solutions, falling prices of satellite equipment and bandwidth costs, a `Health Network’ will soon be a reality in India. It will mean a world of difference to rural India.
Australian government plans to share information between public services
The government of Australia has made a commitment to share information between public services to expand opportunities for the most disadvantaged, fight crime and provide better public services.
Minnesota state legislature receives online democracy award
The Minnesota state legislature’s website has received the online democracy award for outstanding achievement in using design, content and technology to bring democracy closer to the citizens of Minnesota.
Call for cyber security in India
The government of India has directed all ministries and departments to submit a quarterly report on cyber security to the Intelligence Bureau in order to ensure that vital information stored in computers does not fall into wrong hands.
Work locally, develop globally
Denial of visa to UK and US to many meritorious Indians and perhaps sometimes to Africans is no more a news. But an innovative group of young people from Nigeria cheered this trend, voicing, ‘keep the visas, give us broadband
Government to promote IT and ITES in the Union Territory
Lt. Governor Mukut Mithi has told the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Pondicherry, that the administration would soon announce steps to promote Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled Services (ITES) in the Union Territory by establishing an IT park.
e-Map of Dubai on DTCM
The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has launched a new interactive Electronic Map of Dubai on its hugely-popular website.
Goa plans web portal for government departments
The Department of Information Technology (IT), Goa, is in the process of drawing up a proposal to launch a single web portal for government departments so that e-Governance becomes a reality.
