IT penetration to change the Indian scenario says minister
The growing use of IT in government departments of India is the fact that Government of India (GoI) has acknowledged the potential of IT and started looking at it as a component of progress.
e-Governance in Bihar: myth or reality
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.
e-Governance as a state policy in Bihar, India
The state cabinet of Bihar, India, adopted e-Governance as a state policy to cover the entire state and district administrations for better and transparent flow of information from the government level down to the block administration.
ICT Policy in Indonesia
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
APWKomitel (Associations of Community Internet Centre), work closely with various ICT and Police Departments in Indonesia aspiring to develop a good Internet policy for both (cybercafe) in urban areas and (telecentres) in rural areas.
Bihar to emulate e-Seva, adopt e-Governance soon : Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of Bihar, India, India
Clearly, the State of Bihar is in the throes of adopting e-Governance soon. With the new Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the State has again become hopeful to see things moving at a fast pace. Currently, there is not much to showcase but Bihar would certainly like to emulate the most popular project e-Seva, which is easy to replicate, says Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of Bihar, to Anuradha Dhar from egov.
e-Government in Bihar
[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
At a time when India is in the grip of an IT revolution with most of the States in the country taking a plunge and effectively moving towards e-Governance, the State of Bihar simply does not want to lag behind.
Reinventing Government through e-Governance
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance should not limit itself to helping Government serve people better but should target to empower them. If this objective is achieved, then one can think of a true participatory democracy.
ICTD Project Newsletter
[This article was published in the December 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Legal marginalisation is prevalent in varied extent in the developed, developing and underdeveloped world. Democracy in itself is not a comprehensive guarantee to attain justice.
The torchbearers of change
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Citizens have high hopes from state IT secretaries of India and the job is not less challenging. IT secretaries from 10 states speak their mind at Conflux 2005.
