Syedain Abbasi, an officer from the 1990 batch of Indian Administrative Service joined the Department of Information Technology in February 2004. Currently he is handling the preparation and monitoring implementation of the National e-Governance Plan.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
LIRNEasia, in association with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, organised the CPRsouth2 (Communication Policy Research) conference, in Chennai, India between December 15 and 17, 2007.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Development Strategy Consultant Nagy K.Hanna has analysed in details the concept of e-governance and the transformative role of ICT and e-governance in the developing countries.
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Cisco, together with the National Institute of Smart Governance (NISG), hosted the 3rd Annual India Public Sector Summit on e-Governance between 29th and 30th October 2007, in New Delhi.
Singapore is moving ahead in the direction of government’s online initiatives. While speaking at the e-Government Summit 2007, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), stated that the country’s public e-services need to be extended to reach more people.
Soon villagers of Bihar would be able to access Internet in their villages. The State Government has initiated a plan to take information technology to the grass root level by setting up the common service centre, called Vasudha.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
It is not easy to create and govern a First World global city in a Third World environment. Nor is it impossible.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Just as interoperability is a goal of government and the private sector, it is also a business imperative for the information technology sector.
