eINDIA 2009 nominations: civil society

[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Award for Civil Society/Development Agency Initiative of the Year aims to honour civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, bi-lateral, multi-lateral developmental organisations from throughout the world that demonstrate extraordinary effort, innovation, leadership, and excellence in providing ICT services for Governance. The Award is an attempt to recognize the civil societies and development organizations whose exemplary service and success towards spreading the word of ICTs for governance, may have gone unnoticed and unappreciated on the international stage.

eINDIA 2009 AWARDS

[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

eINDIA 2009 is a unique platform for knowledge sharing in different domains of ICT for development and facilitates,
multi-stakeholder partnerships and networking among governments, industry, academia and civil society organisations of different countries, including the host country- India. The objective is to bring together ICT experts, practitioners, business leaders and stakeholders of the region onto one platform, through keynote addresses, paper presentations, thematic workshops and exhibitions.

eIndia 2009 nominations: G2B

[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

e-Procurement is the process wherein the physical tendering activity is carried out online using the Internet and associated technologies.

eINDIA 2009 nominations: mgovernance

[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

3000 multi-purpose community technology centres called Akshya e-Kendras across Kerala are run by private entrepreneurs provide e-Learning, e-Transaction, e-Governance solutions to the public.

eIndia 5.0

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

As the August issue of egov reaches you we will be only a few weeks away from the 5th edition of India’s Largest and most respected ICT event – eIndia. We at egov are very proud to present this landmark event again to you, in 5th consecutive year.

Setting up of new energy efficiency company

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Government of India is considering to form a new energy efficiency company, to be named as Energy Efficiency Services Ltd. (EESL).

Power Reforms: Challenges of Technology Standardisation

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Power sector reforms were first initiated in India in 1992 by the Ministry of Power (MoP) to invite private investments in power generation to bridge the demand-supply gap.

News: Auguest 2009

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

India expects to collect INR 350 billion from the auction of third-generation (3G) radio spectrum, scheduled to happen by December this year. The auction would allow telecoms firms to offer services such as high-speed Internet and video downloads on mobile phones. The government had initially aimed to get INR 200 billion.

Can He Change the Game?

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Nandan Nilekani has been given the charge of the one of most important eGovernance projects -UID.

Good Governance Through e-Governance : Dr Rajeev Sharma, Director General, Centre for Good Governance, Andhra Pradesh

“The e-Governance policy should be a sequel to the policy on governance reform. We should bring governance reforms in focus first and then move on to executing e-Governance to achieve those objectives.”