City Chief Information Officers Their Role
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The office of a Chief Information Officers for the urban centre is perhaps the most appropriate forum for this. Each district should also have a similar CIO.
e-Governance in Urban Local Bodies
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The core operations of the municipal corporations are to deliver key citizen centric services such as grievance redressal, issuing of certificates, tax collection and providing vital civic services.
Online governance to reach grassroots of West Bengal (India)
The West Bengal (India) Government is planning to set up common services centres (CSCs) in each of the 4,562 panchayats in the state by Mach 31, 2008. These CSCs will allow villagers to avail services like registration of certificates, filing commercial taxes among others.
e-Health 2.0 : Opportunities for Public Health Informatics
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Diseases pose an immense challenge to those affected by them as well as for the care providers.
Open Source software to improve Indian civic services
The e-Government foundation of India has developed an open source software to improve the management of municipal services.
Jharkhand Government (India) promotes computer education programme
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.
Telecentres Movement in Nepal
[This article was published in the October 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Inspired by the memory of the late philanthropist Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju, founder of Satyam group of companies,
DACNET
[This article was published in the July 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In agricultural development, there is no time for complacency, we have to continue to develop better technologies, new crop varieties and animal products to meet the challenges ahead. We have to use all information on the available farm technologies to the farmers fields. The job is formidable.
