[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
SKS Microfinance is working extensively on rural credit and microfinance and trying to identify feasible financial solutions for the rural Indian folk.
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India
According to Dataquest-IDC e-Gov Survey 2008, Delhi is the best e-Governed state of 2007 followed by Goa, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that its three e-Governance projects won National e-Governance Awards 2007-2008 instituted by the Government of India.
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Government ICT News
The Government of India has taken nation-wide project to connect jails and district courts across the country via a tele-justice or video conferencing system. With the help of tele-justice, the accused can now be present in a court through a video link, established on ISDN lines, between the prison and the court.
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have successfully implemented State-Wide Area Network (SWAN), the backbone infrastructure for rolling out the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). All the three states have opted for the private-public partnership (PPP) mode for the project.
The official website of the Tamil Nadu Government has received the best government website award in the National Awards for e-Governance. The Central Government announced the national awards for e-Governance for 2007-2008.
Oracle offers governments robust, integrated information architecture comprising both technology and applications, which is based on open standards. As Indian governments start to use Oracle database, middleware and applications, we think the new features in our software can greatly help Indian governments, tells Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India, in an interview with egov magazine.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Digital library project in India is one of the ambitious projects that calls for the digitisation of over a million number of books and scholarly manuscripts
