[This article was published in the June 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) organised a regional consultation meeting on ICT Policy in South Asia from the 19th till 21st April, 2006 at BRAC Centre Inn, Dhaka.
A farmer in a village in China can now use a computer to get help from an agronomist several hundred kilometers away about rice planting. This information helps to get proper guidelines regarding plantation and marketing of agri products to get more money.
Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam’s first e-Government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.
The Singapore Government has unveiled iGov2010 plan, a new $2 billion five-year masterplan for the next lap of its journey in e-Government.
Hughes Communication, US-based communication firm, plans to establish 1,000 broadband kiosks across India.
Wisconsin State Senator Ted Kanavas said that Senate Bill 483, which is known as the Broadband Deployment Act (BDA), was signed into law.
The Finance Minister of India, Mr P. Chidambaram, launched a website of the National Savings Institute (NSI) for dissemination of information and online redress of complaints related to various small savings schemes offered by the central government.
In a bid to make e-Governance a reality, Bihar is all set to take a big leap towards e-Governance to adopt it as a state policy on the advice of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The MCA-21 initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs, India, facilitating e-Filing of documents under Indian Company Law is praiseworthy in many ways.
The new government of Uganda revealed that it would bear an ICT ministry under the supervision of ICT expert Dr. Ham Mulira.
