[This article was published in the October 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Internet Society organised a special workshop on the Internet and Public Policy issues during eINDIA 2009.
“CSCs should not be viewed merely in the conventional business terms. This is an investment in rural ICT infrastructure similar to road connectivity to connect the unconnected villages with the government and business services. The investment will yield high social returns in terms of various benefits to the rural masses”
[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Zylog systems, a Chennai based IT company has launched Wi-Fi services ‘Wi5’ in Chennai, thus entering the Internet Service Provider (ISP) business.
One97 Communications (P) Ltd has unveiled PayTM, an easy-to-deploy mobile commerce offering that enables consumers to conduct commercial transactions through their phones.
One of the leading payment gateways in India, E-Billing Solutions (EBS) has deployed VeriSign Inc.’s Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates for client security.
Speech Bridge Technology announced its alliance with XCALLIBRE, to launch world’s first digital pen technology that transforms mundane multi-level form filling task in less than 3 minutes in India.
[This article was published in the July 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance projects always throws up some crucial challenges in the form of rising cost due to usage of proprietary softwares and technology, mere digitisation rather than Business Process Re-engineering, frequent transfer of IT secretaries, and lack of awareness among officials about the larger impact of e-Governance projects.
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
As a part of knowledge exchange series egov recently held a round table conference on Public Safety and Security in New Delhi. Previously also egov has had knowledge exchange seminar/ discussions on the role of IT in managing a municipality and digital inclusion: pathway for economic development. The round table was chaired by M.P. Narayanan, President, CSDMS.
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Strategic, BroadVision e-business platform helps government agencies across Asia, North and South America and Europe become more agile; gives Indian railway passengers
