The cross municipal electronic land management system (eLMS) team has received recognition from the Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA), the regulative and legislative body of the municipal system in the Emirate in Abu Dhabi.
Brookings Institution of Governance Studies has ranked South Korea at the 1st position out of 198 countries. Other highly ranked countries in the study are Taiwan, United States, Singapore, Canada, Australia, Germany and Ireland. Singapore, which was placed 4th, is the top ranking country among Asean nations.
Madhya Pradesh (MP) Forest Department has bagged the National e- Governance silver medal for its Fire Alert and Message System (FAMS). The award will be given away at the 12th National Conference on e- Governance in Goa on February 12, 2009, by the Information and Technology Department of Government of India.
Bahraini eGovernment Authority’s (eGA) national portal will now offer an additional new service of tracking letters and parcels online of the Bahrain Post. The service, named
Preparations for the third annual African e-government Forum to be held in Rwanda in March have begun. The three-day event will give an opportunity to Information and communication technologies to voice their views, insights, knowledge and share experiences at the forum.
Rural India has 3.3 million active internet users. In the first time ever mapping of rural India these results were reached in a new report prepared by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
Dubai Municipality has accomplished a record 1,386,791 e-transactions last year i.e. 2008, marking a tremendous success of the e-government project of the Municipality. Among the 492 e-services provided by the Municipality e-portal, 402 are main services and others are branch services covering information services and transactional services that facilitate easy access to a number of forms required for getting the Municipality services accomplished.
The benefits of electronic governance became available to some 400,000 residents with the successful computerization of 37 barangays in Quezon City
Punjab Agricultural Marketing Board board is on its way to become the first organisation in Punjab to implement the internet-based tendering. Punjab Agricultural Marketing Board has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with state-run Indian Telephone Industries Limited for implementing e-tendering. The system is expected to get functional by February 15, 2009.
Dubai Municipality (DM) to deliver a bouquet of services of different Dubai Government departments and establishments through a single window. The project is aimed at simplifying the procedures of offering services by integrating the places and criteria of offering services and reducing the expenses for operating these services. Under this project, a number of counter staff will be trained and qualified to offer these services…
