Providing Technology Solutions to the Government : Karan Bajwa, Group Director, Public Sector, Microsoft, India
What technology drives an application is irrelevant to the average user”
What technology drives an application is irrelevant to the average user”
In a partnership for financial inclusion for the excluded, Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Finacle of Infosys Technologies Ltd (Infosys) tied up for core banking services in rural areas. It is said that Finacle will provide new age technology laden banking solution across PNB
ItzCash plans to spread its wings in rural markets in the country by next year through opening another 5,000 outlets in rural areas. At present, the company already has one lakh outlets and about 10,000 franchisees in India…
The Unique Identity Project seeks to assign a unique identity (UID) number to each individual in the country that would remain a permanent identifier right from birth to death of the individual…
NSR, an international market research and consulting firm, in its recent report named, ‘Indian Satellite Markets,’ predicts that India to be a multi-billion dollar market for satellite and related services by 2013…
Chandigarh residents will soon get an option to pay their pending electricity and water bills online through the e- Sampark project.
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is planning to launch a high-pitched awareness campaign for its INR 230 billion e-Governance project. The DIT has earmarked INR 0.15 billion for the campaign, which is likely to be launched around November 2008.
India Corruption Study- 2007 by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies has proved that computerisation of front-end government services, e-Governance, citizen charters and social audits have controlled corruption involving upper and middle classes but have not helped the poor.