IBM Global Services India has signed a deal with the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government, India, to promote IT education at the grassroots level as well as build capacity and improve skills of the IT workforce. The programme is called Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant IT Ecosystem (INVITE).
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), West Bengal (India) will fully implement its e-Governance platform in 16 months time.
[This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The largest ICT and Education annual conference and exhibition is preparing ground for a take off! Preludes.
The second phase of the all-India income-tax network is expected to be almost ready by this year-end.
[This article was published in the June 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The government of Haryana and Intel India join their hands together to equip teachers of Haryana to became professionally well in the computerised environment in schools.
The Zimbabwean government has drafted a bill that would permit the surveillance of telephone and e-Mail communications while making it compulsory for service providers to install the enabling equipment on behalf of the state.
Clearly, the State of Bihar is in the throes of adopting e-Governance soon. With the new Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the State has again become hopeful to see things moving at a fast pace. Currently, there is not much to showcase but Bihar would certainly like to emulate the most popular project e-Seva, which is easy to replicate, says Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of Bihar, to Anuradha Dhar from egov.
The Philipinnes Government portal, www.gov.ph, is up for a redesign and government is set to bid out this project to the private sector.
