According to the recent report published by Cryptohippie Inc., which surveyed 52 countries for having the most aggressive procedures to monitor residents electronically, India ranks No. 20. The report, called ‘The Electronic Police State’, assessed the status of government surveillance around the globe for 2008.
Taking stringent action against the online copyright infringement, France parliament has passed Internet anti-piracy bill, providing relief to global music industry. The bill was passed in the lower house (National Assembly) by a vote of 296 to 233 on Tuesday and by 189 votes to 14 in the upper house (the Senate) a day later.
The state of Kerala has decided to establish an IT cell in all the government departments in a month. High level discussions are being held to brood on the feasibility of the the huge IT deployment in departments including revenue, police and agriculture.
Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) is planning to extend rebate to those using the online medium to fill requests for various kinds of processing to be done at estate offices.
Besides deposition of house tax, water tax, electricity and telephone bills, department of IT and Electronics in Uttar Pradesh is mulling over a proposal to make available an e-Governance facility through which students school fee can be deposited at the nearest e-suvidha counter.
The online complaint registration on the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) e-governance website lies unused since February 9, 2003. Other than a few stray cases in the monsoon section the citizens there do not think its a popular method of ensuring that their complaints are followed up.
According to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi officials, Wipro has showed reservations to continue its role as a consultant for an eGovernance project of automation of business process of the municipal body and making it a paper less organization.
Ending speculations, the Appointment Committee of Cabinet finalised the name of JS Sarma, member of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Without giving much heed to the TRAI’s proposal of setting up of an Internet registry by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), a public-private partnership body, the DOT is to set up a National Internet Registry to create more Web addresses as the country’s existing resources will run out of capacity in one year.
