India’s global ICT ranking goes down

In the latest of a series of Networked Readiness Index reports brought out annually by the World Economic Forum and […]

Telecom in all Indian villages by 2014: BSNL

Under the National Optical Fibre Network’ (NOFN), the State owned Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has undertaken the ambitious task of […]

Canada liberalises telecom industry: foreign ownership will be permitted

In its first major economic reform initiative, the conservative government in Canada has thrown a new lifeline to struggling newcomers […]

Data Centres Architecture & Security

If we burn all the data that we now have on compact discs, the resulting stack will go beyond the […]

LIC plans 1.9 Trillion Rupees Investments in FY12

While talking to reporters, D.K. Mehrotra, acting chairman of Life Insurance Corp of India has stated that the LIC expects […]

Assessing National e-Readiness

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

By Seema Hafeez,
Sr Economic Affairs Officer, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

A notch below the cloud?

[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Since cloud computing is the buzz word today, the trend towards adoption of private cloud and virtualisation is going to increase over the next few years, as unless you virtualise, you cannot move towards private clouds

Bombay plans cyber cafe controls

There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.