With the e-Government initiatives, it is our aim to effectively create an alternative new channel for citizens and businesses to engage with government administrations transparently, at a faster pace, more conveniently and at a lower cost,” says Patrick O. Tammur, Hon
The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chosen Verizon Business for consolidating global communications over a single Internet Protocol (IP) network which would enable a secured and centralized communications infrastructure for its employees around the world and thus help reduce costs and administrative hassles. The ministry is going hi-tech with video conferencing which would help their employees to collaborate from wherever they are based.
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Gujarat to Connect All Villages via Satellite
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
ICT can improve the quality of teaching, learning and management in schools and so help raise standards. When the quality teaching and learning is done creatively and collaboratively, it works wonder for the education community in terms of their capacity building.
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
World News
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India organised a national seminar,
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India
Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-Governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
NIGCOMSAT Limited, the company incharge of Nigeria’s communication satellite announced that the company will provide Internet facilities over 400 Community Tele-Centres (CTC) nationwide. The project is meant to provide affordable access Internet, multimedia and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) in remote and unserved urban areas.
“Nokia Siemens Networks envisions that by 2015, we will live in a world where five billion people will be connected through telecommunications, most of them via broadband” says Kapil Ahuja, Marketing Head, India Regional Marketing APAC, Nokia Siemens Networks, to egov magazine.
