India: Delhi metro stations to be Wi-Fi enabled before Commonwealth Games
The Delhi (India) Government has decided to make all the metro stations Wi-Fi enabled before the 2010 Commonwealth games.
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e-Stamping Introduced in Karnataka (India)
The state of Karnataka launched a state-of-the-art Electronic Stamping (e-Stamping) facility in collaboration with the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL).
Project Eyeway, Score Foundation
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Eyeway dream
Prachi and Pragya are twin girls who have been blind from almost birth. Information that the parents Manjula and Jayant Mahajan received when the girls were still crawling helped them chart out a life for their girls in the mainstream. The girls today are studying in Springdales School, New Delhi.
Dr. Lal Path Labs
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Swan Projects Completed in Three States
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have successfully implemented State-Wide Area Network (SWAN), the backbone infrastructure for rolling out the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). All the three states have opted for the private-public partnership (PPP) mode for the project.
Providing Solutions for Local Needs – Oracle Strengthens Focus on Government : Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India
Oracle offers governments robust, integrated information architecture comprising both technology and applications, which is based on open standards. As Indian governments start to use Oracle database, middleware and applications, we think the new features in our software can greatly help Indian governments, tells Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India, in an interview with egov magazine.
Digital Library in India
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Digital library project in India is one of the ambitious projects that calls for the digitisation of over a million number of books and scholarly manuscripts
Delhi Cabinet approved implementation of online
The Delhi Cabinet on 14 January, 2008 approved implementation of the online Project Jeevan that would provide a single-window facility for various services pertaining to different departments and ministries in the Capital in order to make it a truly hi-tech city. While 23 departments and 104 services have been identified to be brought under the “Jeevan
Microsoft Platform Aids Food Corporation of India to Manage its Food Grain Supplies Efficiently : Food Corporation India and National Informatics Centre, (FCI, NIC), India
The first step in finding the best solution was to identify the right platform. With the aid of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), FCI identified 5 key criteria that must be fulfilled on the new platform.
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.
