India Must Lead Open Source Movement : Nandu Pradhan, President and Managing Director, Red Hat India

Nandu Pradhan brings in over 25 years sales and management experience in the IT Industry. In his role as the head of Red Hat

e-Government in Developing Countries

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

Development Strategy Consultant Nagy K.Hanna has analysed in details the concept of e-governance and the transformative role of ICT and e-governance in the developing countries.

GSA offers e-Offer, an e- Authentication initiative to expand business opportunities

The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) announced that the customers of WellsSecure, a business unit of Wells Fargo Bank, will now access FAS’ premier online proposal submission program, e-Offer http://www.cio.gov/eauthentication by using WellsSecure digital certificates.

DST (South Africa) switching over to FOSS

South Africa’s department of science and technology (DST) is taking bold steps towards switching to free and open source software (Foss) and is starting to move its first desktop users over to Linux.

Bahrain: Law makes smart cards mandatory for all citizens

In an effort to make the country

International Academy of CIO

[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

For the people, the term CIO or Chief Information Officer is today no longer a new word. CIO Magazine

Cisco-NISG 2nd Annual Public Sector Summit, 9-10 March 2006, New Delhi, India

[This article was published in the April 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Cisco Systems and National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) co-hosted the Summit in which over 120 delegates across the country comprising senior officials participated. The event was also graced by top brass officials of IT concerned field abroad.

Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework for e-Governance:

[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Embarking on massive e-Governance programmes for Governments the worldover to bring about a perceptible change in the very system of governance should not be taken as a matter of course alone

Eyeing Third World leadership Bangladesh embraces e-Governance in earnest

[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Bangladesh, as a developing Third World nation, has understood the crucial importance of e-Governance and the strong prospects that it holds in steering the country on the path of progress if successfully implemented. Cooperation from government officials and staff would be crucial in realising the goals of modernising Bangladesh through e-Governance.

R(e)volutionary journey of Singapore : Choy Peng, Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) and Government Chief Information Officer, IDA, Singapore

The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA, www.ida.gov.sg) of Singapore is the key body of Singapore government responsible for charting the growth of its infocomm industry and spearheading the delivery of citizen-centric e-government services, regulating the telecom industry. One of their main objectives is to build and operate the Government