The three-day ninth National e-Governance Conference last week recommended higher adoption of public private partnerships (PPP) and amendment to the sections on e-Governance in the Information Technology Act. The conference, attended by heads of State IT departments and representatives from IT majors, also wanted legislative changes to boost the PPPs, besides urging the Government to evolve a policy on user charges.
Millions of Kenyans have been unable to get national identity cards in the past five months because paper that these cards are printed on have run out.
District Administration Office (DAO) at Kavre district in Nepal has developed itself as a model e-Governance office, setting-up computerised system for official records and works.
By month’s end, a final architecture for the E-Rulemaking project will be set.
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In 2005, the eUSER project undertook a questionnaire survey covering approximately 10,000 households in ten European Union Member States. Some very interesting initial results inform that face-to-face contact is still the most important channel for contacting government in Europe and One quarter of individual eGovernment users have acted as intermediaries for family members or friends.
A unique step has been taken by The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), Bangladesh for developing an electronic birth registration system (EBRS).
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), has turned to information technology (IT) to help minimise revenue losses, modernise payroll accounting, create a digitised map and improve operational efficiency in general.
