Being a major partner in the UID Aadhar project, Nirmal Prakash, Managing Director, Smart ID talks about how technology is helping build an inclusive society and nation building. In an interaction with Dhirendra Pratap Singh, he also shares insights about the delivery of services through smart cards in India.
Joseph Kremer, Dell, President, Public-Large Enterprise, APJ, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand
Giving the country some of the best defence products and various IT solutions, Bharat Electronics (BEL) is rightly of the greatest Public Sector Enterprise of the country.
The Town Planning Department of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) in Maharashtra has gone online with a dedicated portal launched to clear building proposals.
The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) has activated both online services in cooperation with the Electronic Government Authority
A Rs 57-crore data centre designed to meet requirements of Karnataka government for the next decade was set up recently. The centre will offer latest technologies including virtualisation and provide the servers on demand to various department of the government to facilitate e-Initiatives
Microsoft has announced the public beta of Microsoft Office 365, the company
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Secure IT 2011
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
While government aims to assign unique numbers to a billion plus population for providing a portable identity and eliminating of ghosts from databases, it has spurred a public debate on the potential misuse of UID leading to infringement of individual privacy and liberty and data security
Vijayalakshmi Bidari Prasanna
Director, Department of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra
