We Want the Government to Work on Next Phase of NeGP : Jaijit Bhattacharya, Country Director, Government Strategy, Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.

Jaijit Bhattacharya is responsible for the creation of the next generation of solutions for the governments, based on open standards. Bhattacharya also advises governments on e-Governance strategies. He is an e- overnance advisor to Government of Sri Lanka and has been conducting trainings for ADB institute in Tokyo on Public Expenditure Management as well as helping the World Bank develop curriculum for their e-Leadership programme.

Top Educationists Just A Click Away – Online Academy : Monica Malhotra Kandhari, Director, MBD Alchemie

MBD has a quality and name to keep. Every time we are bringing out a product, we think a lot about the quality. Content, which is the bread and butter of e-Learning, is everybody

Healthcare segment today is witnessing a move from point solutions to an enterprise-wide solution : Prasenjit Lahiri, IT

Wipro Healthcare IT

Medical value travel

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

When a new industry starts to flourish, we start analysing the whys and wherefores, and the learning that comes out of it most often is- when there is a demand somewhere, chances are that it will meet with supply in India- a country full of resources. Could the IT success have been replicated?

Harnessing Open Source for Education, CII-Shiksha way

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

Open Source has been the much talked about during the last few years and we have everyone talking about it in just about any ICT conference or seminar.

India to be 97% broadband enabled by 2012

The Planning Commission of India has disclosed its 11th five year plan for 2008-2012, in which it claimed that 97 percent population will be broadband enabled.

Indian Govt. offers traffic alerts via SMS to Delhiites

Soon, citizens of Delhi will get traffic alerts on their mobile phones via SMS. The Delhi Government is planning to install a hi-tech traffic information system (TIS), which will give alerts about traffic jams and help them in avoiding jams.

MCD to use plasma technology for disposing of garbage in Delhi

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to employ plasma technology for the mundane but crucial purpose of disposing garbage.

IT superpower India not a hot spot for Wi-Fi

India is lacking behind in the index of the world Wi-Fi rankings. India has only 454 public Wi-Fi hotspots. While US leads the Wi-Fi hotspot index with 64,670 public hotspots followed by UK (30,613), Germany (21,236) and France (22,799) hotspots.

Spatial Data Infrastructure to be Set up in Delhi, India

The Government of Delhi along with the Survey of India and the National Mapping Agency has recently launcehd the Delhi State Spatial Infrastructure (DSSDI) project.th November, 2007, by . An outcome of a pilot project of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, the DSSDI project will help the state government to provide better disaster management and security covers of valuable infrastructure.