Secure Connections in Challenging Environments : Subodh Vardhan, Director Sales and Country Head (Government and Public Safety), Motorola India

Subodh leads the team that is responsible for marketing and deployment of private networks for public safety, defence, railways and enterprise customers. This includes two way radio networks as well as networks based on wireless broadband technologies for campus and municipal Wi-Fi, point to point and point to multi-point connectivity. Subodh is also introducing defence, transportation (railways, airports, seaports etc) and enterprise customers to state of the art communications technologies.

Internet In All Secondary Schools By 2012 : Subhash C Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Bureau of School Education, Ministry of HRD Government of India

All schools need to be transparent and accountable. As a first step, Central Board of Secondary Education is in the process of developing guidelines for disclosure of relevant information by every school affiliated with it for the benefit of parents and the public at large. The schools will be encouraged to maintain their web-sites with certain core information.

Empowerment through ICT : Oleg Petrov, World Bank

Interview

Simplifying Information Technology : Rajan Anandan, Vice President and General Manager, Dell India

As Vice President (VP) & General Manager (GM)

Aiming to Service the Citizens at their Door-Steps : Syedain Abbasi, Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT

Syedain Abbasi, an officer from the 1990 batch of Indian Administrative Service joined the Department of Information Technology in February 2004. Currently he is handling the preparation and monitoring implementation of the National e-Governance Plan.

Empowering the rural communities

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

LIRNEasia, in association with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, organised the CPRsouth2 (Communication Policy Research) conference, in Chennai, India between December 15 and 17, 2007.

Book received

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Book received

An emerging digital India

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Multi-Stakeholder Partnership (MSPs)which engages active stakeholders in development, especially in the applications of ICT for Development, is emerging as an important model of working, and replacing the much understood public-private partnership model.

India to be 97% broadband enabled by 2012

The Planning Commission of India has disclosed its 11th five year plan for 2008-2012, in which it claimed that 97 percent population will be broadband enabled.

Call for broadband community centres in Malaysia

Alcatel-Lucent is bringing broadband based community centres in order to deliver high-speed Internet services to rural folk in Malaysia.