France and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are assisting Viet Nam in rehabilitating and upgrading vital infrastructure in one of the poorest regions of the country to improve livelihood opportunities and the standard of living of the rural population in the area.
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
For the developing countries what matters most in implementing e-Government is low cost, high speed and efficient access network infrastructure.
The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC) is offering an online course on Local e-Governance in the Caribbean for a third time.
Two reputed IT firms of India, Hughes Communications Ltd, one of the leading providers of broadband satellite networks and services and Microsoft have rolled out a campaign in Jaipur, India to encourage rural citizens about the use of ICT for socio-economic empowerment.
The Jharkhand Government, India has rolled out a computer education and computer-aided education programme to down link based education at the local level. The programme would be covered in 440 schools across the 22 district of the state.
A UNESCO-supported Youth Community Multimedia Centre (YCMC) is teaching people in rural areas about the value of community radio, using a combination of theatre and ICT in Sitakund sub-district in Bangladesh.
Parliament of Uganda is to investigate the circumstances under which the government handled the procurement of the multi-million Nakaseke Telecentre project.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO), in collaboration with the Caribbean Centre for the Development Administration (CARICAD), and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) launches a series of electronic governance related capacity development activities in Caribbean.
The Committee on implementation of the new reservation policy in higher educational institutions has set to be an emulative role model for campuses of higher education.
NREGAsoft, software of the ministry of rural development to monitor the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) across the country, has bagged the Microsoft e-governance award 2006.
