[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
Cyber security and information security are growing demands across all the sectors in the government as well as private firms. With the advent of information technology comes a threat of it being misused.
[This article was published in the April 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Smart City 2011 Event
Students of Kerala University no longer need to stand in long queues to pay their examination fees. They can now do so from the comfort of their homes. The e-Payment facility for paying the examination fees of the University was launched on Tuesday by Dr. A Jayakrishnan, Vice Chancellor, Kerala University at a function held in Thiruvananthapuram.
[This article was published in the February 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Participants agreed that discussions were broadly completed and there was enough clarity to start executing plans now
[This article was published in the February 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The proposed right to services legislation in some states of the country will make government officers pay for delay in service delivery. Will it really work?
[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
ICT has constructed pockets of efficiencies into governance; it
[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Govt can use social media as a potential goldmine for to-and-fro exchange of citizen views on public and policy matters
[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Since cloud computing is the buzz word today, the trend towards adoption of private cloud and virtualisation is going to increase over the next few years, as unless you virtualise, you cannot move towards private clouds
