e-Seva, gaining popularity as a best government-to-citizen service
e-Seva has come a long way since 1999 in Andhra Pradesh, India and it has proved to be the best example for government-to-citizen service.
Connection, Confidence, Content New Zealand
Deputy Commissioner
Information and Communication Technologies, State Services Commission, Wellington
Opening windows of public sector IT solutions : Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
Microsoft to push e-Governance in India
IT major Microsoft is to invest $1.7 billion in India and also partner the government of India in pushing e-Governance through National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG).
Potholes in the free-way
[This article was published in the December 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Asia-Pacific countries are adopting public sector reforms to better compete in the regional and global economy by strengthening markets and individual choice and in turn economic growth and poverty reduction.
LOKVANI: An (e)ffort to (e)mpower citizens
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Lokvani is an innovative model of Citizen Service Centres (CSCs) implemented in district Sitapur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a self sustainable solution, wherein the existing cyber cafes are being leveraged to act as franchisees, benefiting the citizens, the administration and the kiosks operators.
Rural information, knowledge and services
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
This article presents the trends, approaches and a vision for the development of rural information, knowledge and services in developing economies.
R(e)volutionary journey of Singapore : Choy Peng, Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) and Government Chief Information Officer, IDA, Singapore
The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA, www.ida.gov.sg) of Singapore is the key body of Singapore government responsible for charting the growth of its infocomm industry and spearheading the delivery of citizen-centric e-government services, regulating the telecom industry. One of their main objectives is to build and operate the Government
User attitudes to e-Government citizen services in Europe
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Good governance rests on the pillars of knowledge where information should be acquired and used strategically for public purposes. e-Governance helps in dissemination of useful governance information, which already exists in the public domain into the wider public domain through the use of ICT.
Community Information Centres (CICs)
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Under the Community Information Centres (CICs) project, 487 CICs have been set up, at the Block level in the 8 North Eastern states of India covering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
