Engineering students in Karnataka will now handle e-Governance initiatives of the state government. In a novel scheme aimed at addressing e-Governance glitches faced by several government departments, the Board for IT Education Standards (BITES) in association with the IT department and IBM has launched Project INVITE (Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant Information Technology Ecosystem).
Some states of India are much ahead of other states in the field of e-Governance. The disparity in the impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) across the country underscores the uneven economic development. This was the unanimous view of IT experts at a seminar on
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
In preparation for the final take off of the Nigerian e-government project, prominent governors, ministers and heads of parastatals have been appointed project champions for their various establishments.
The National carrier ‘Indian’ has tied up with Amadeus to provide e-tickets to its passengers. IBM will undertake the upgradation of processes and systems at Indian to bring it to International Air Transport Association e-ticketing standards.
The Grameen Sanchar Sewak (GSS) scheme, an ambitious pilot project to introduce rural mobile services kickstarted by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Lmited (BSNL) and the Department of Posts in 2002, is ready to be regularised and go national, after a resounding triumph in the Indian state West Bengal.
Owing to the fast progress of the state of West Bengal in recent years in IT and e-Governance services, it is now being counted as one among the leading states in e-Governance along with Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. West Bengal is now all set to implement India
SAP is a recognised leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all type of industries and for every major market. SAP has increased efficiency, improved accountability and enabled responsive constituent services in more than 1,050 public sector organisations worldwide.
[This article was published in the June 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In most developing countries, the adoption of a national programme can prevent technological lock-in through selective, judicious and
cost-effective use of open source software.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Free/GNU platform was making strides on software front in many ways but a little slowly on Indian languages. But this slowness was steadily towards universal standards and hence almost deliberate.
