The Protocol on the Policy and Regulatory framework for Nepad ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network is based on the Constitutive Act of the African Union. Its objective is to facilitate and commit the Parties to the construction and operation of the Nepad ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network for Eastern and Southern Africa, on
Speaking at the two-day meeting with the Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development (PIAC) in Mpumalanga, President Thabo Mbeki said that South Africa had to become an advanced information-based society in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools were the drivers of economic and societal development.
Information and Communication Technology ministers from Eastern and Southern African countries have signed a policy and regulatory protocol for Nepad broadband ICT infrastructure network.
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Conventional passports with the picture and safety imprint cannot longer respond to security requirements, so governments worldwide introduce, or are getting ready to introduce, modern passports based on the chip which holds biometric data of assport bearer
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Uks was the first civil society organisation in Pakistan to launch a radio production house in July 2003. The most noteworthy feature of Uks Radio Project is that an all women team of journalists and broadcasters runs it.
Eastern and Southern African communication ministers are going to sign the official protocol for the region’s ICT broadband infrastructure network, that includes the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), by month-end.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Government of India is planning to introduce e-Passports, also known as bio-metric passports.
Somerset County Council (UK) has announced that the last Local Authority School in Somerset is been hooked up to a broadband Internet connection, in partnership with British Telecom, Cable & Wireless and Research Machines PLC (RM).
Bloggers are now bale to access, edit and post new entries as Internet Service Providers restore access to blog-hosting sites Blogspot.com and Typepad.com in a phased manner.
In India, the administration of Chandigarh has geared up to make the entire city wireless within next one year.
