[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Current trends in e-Government call for services that are simple to use, shaped around and responding to the needs of citizens.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The detected slowdown in U.S. Internet adoption may soon become a global slowdown.
Somerset County Council (UK) has announced that the last Local Authority School in Somerset is been hooked up to a broadband Internet connection, in partnership with British Telecom, Cable & Wireless and Research Machines PLC (RM).
Illegal foreign investments are now banned in booming telecom sector and value added services including Internet portals, e-Commerce and search engines in China.
The State Government of Haryana, India, is planning to deploy a statewide area network entitled ADHAAR that will connect the state headquarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels to support all its e-Governance initiatives.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) in the Philippines is now aiming to reverse its state of services by providing up to date delivery for stakeholders with the Asycuda World Project.
A ten year nation-wide project called the Picture Archiving & Communications System (PACS) has been undertaken by the NHS to streamline diagnostic services.
At a technology awareness seminar for the financial services sector, sponsored by Fujitsu and the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development, at Hilton Barbados, the Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development Minister, Lynette Eastmond has said that there is not much more that government can do to create an enabling environment for greater use of e-Commerce in the financial services sector.
Preparations for the Iraq Security, Technology & Communications Summit were boosted last week.
In India, the administration of Chandigarh has geared up to make the entire city wireless within next one year.
