Microsoft and Hughes have decided to set up 5,000 Kiosks in 200 small towns and rural regions.Satellite will be to provide broadband connectivity to kiosks. This is the first time that any company is planning VSAT-based broadband kiosks in rural areas in India on a large scale.
The national e-Commerce portal (ECVN) has attracted around 1,000 local and foreign members in its one year of operation.
National Informatics Center (NIC) has partnered with IBM (NYSE:IBM) to power the national portal of India (india.gov.in) enabling delivery of government services to its citizens.
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Eleven years after the Fourth World Conference on Women which was held in 1995 in Beijing that came out with a Action Plan, and six years after the Millennium Summit which focused on some of the common goals relating to gender equality, poverty reduction, education for all, maternal mortality, etc.
Dubai e-Government in association with Dubai Municipality, Etisalat and Commercial Bank of Dubai announced the launch of its Direct Debit payment system aimed at facilitating direct debit payments capitalising on Internet banking channels.
In Sweden, a number of municipalities, county councils and government authorities have introduced e-Procurement/e-Commerce.
Manoo Ordeedolchest, the President of SIPA speaking more on SIPA’s contribution to e-learning in an exclusive conversation with Rumi Mallick of Digital Learning.
[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
POWERTEL offers its country wide telecom network to support the e-Governance initiatives of Government of India and various state governments
