NSE testing blockchain based e-voting

National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) will be conducting e-voting through the use of blockchain technology. The blockchain would […]

How long will the largest democracy wait to go online for Voting? – Aniruddha Nene, GraOne Solutions

It is 2500 years since the Greeks came up with Democracy. We have come a long way since then, in […]

Shifting to Information Economy

[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Just technology deployment won

Ghana Govt in for Biometric Registration

Ghana Government has pledged its commitment to the Electoral Commission (EC) in its bid to introduce biometric technology to promote e-voting in the country. The Minister for Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, announcing government

Let tech take backstage

[This article was published in the January 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

ICT is a great enabler, but e-Governance vision is best driven by those trained in the ethos of citizen service

News: Auguest 2009

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

India expects to collect INR 350 billion from the auction of third-generation (3G) radio spectrum, scheduled to happen by December this year. The auction would allow telecoms firms to offer services such as high-speed Internet and video downloads on mobile phones. The government had initially aimed to get INR 200 billion.

A question mark on security of e-Voting

A series of new reports have again raised questions about the security of electronic voting machines, with one report identifying multiple vulnerabilities.

For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule

A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.