New State Data Centre Inaugurated at Andhra Pradesh
Equipped with complete redundancy it is aimed at powering the state government’s technology initiatives for better governance and citizen services
Bringing Accountability for e-Governance
[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Once the new legislation on e-Services for public is passed, all government departments will have to issue a framework within six months on services to be digitised and formats to be adopted, along with a cut-off date for completing the exercise
Digital Divide Continues
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The next five years focus should be more on integration of various services and infrastructure platforms
PPP has been a Right Choice
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There is no dearth of technology but infrastructure in rural areas is not so good and hence one has to look at solutions which are more pragmatic
Next Wave of Service Delivery
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Given the scale and diversity of India, we will need to continually optimise our approach based on learnings from various NeGP projects
Beyond Pilot Projects
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Adopting newer technologies like Cloud Computing and m-Governance will help the government to deploy more projects and save government
At the cusp of e-Transition
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Maharashtra is now counted among the leaders in e-Governance readiness in India and is poised to be the only state with single front-end delivery of 100 G2C services by next year
The Catalytic Effects of e-Governance
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Service delivery in our country is fragmented due to multiple entities. e-Governance initiatives in different departments are carried out independent of each other, which dilutes the impact. One-window citizen services can be a reality
Iraqi Team in Bangalore to Observe e-Gov Projects
A 20-member delegation from Iraq, led by its Science and Technology Minister Abdul Kareem El-Samarai, is in this tech hub for a firsthand account of the e-Governance projects used for community development and as an interface between the government and citizens.
Mohali
Mohali will soon get a State Data Centre (SDC), one of the key Information Technology infrastructure elements being created in Punjab. It will provide a safe data storage facility. Punjab Information Technology Minister, Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon laid the foundation stone of the INR 12 crore project at Industrial Focal Point, Phase VIII-B, in Mohali.
