INDIA
Government of India Seeks to Enable e-Governance through SOA
The Government of India is looking at Service Oriented Architechture (SOA) to bring greater efficiencies to administrative processes and to enable e-Governance. The National Informatics Center (NIC) has been entrusted to introduce e-Governance standards, which will be based on SOA.
IT superpower India not a hot spot for Wi-Fi
India is lacking behind in the index of the world Wi-Fi rankings. India has only 454 public Wi-Fi hotspots. While US leads the Wi-Fi hotspot index with 64,670 public hotspots followed by UK (30,613), Germany (21,236) and France (22,799) hotspots.
e-Police for Crime Free World?
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Editorial
Policing in the Information Age
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Information Technology (IT) has created new opportunities to manage the police force better, and to investigate criminal cases more efficiently. At the same time,
it has given rise to increasing cyber-crimes. The police must gear up to face the increasing challenges on this front, and contribute to the healthy development of the IT sector in the country.
Bridges to the Future in India
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The central philosophy of the Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) Programme is to bridge the digital divide between the ICT haves and ICT have-nots, by extending learning opportunities to those most in need.
Police Ride on Technology to Nab Criminals
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Finger-prints, the oldest biometric sign of identity, have been used for about 100 years. Scientific studies on finger-prints were initiated in the late sixteenth century, but the foundation of modern finger-print identification was established by the studies of Sir F. Galton and E. Henry at the end of nineteenth century.
The Next Generation Products
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Emerson Network Power (India) Pvt. Ltd., has launched next generation products for the Air and Power divisions namely Liebert XD series, Liebert PeX, Liebert NXa and Super 400 D.
Public Sector Summit 2007
[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.
telecentre ethos 2.0
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
When you hear the term telecentre ethos 2.0, what comes to your
mind? In general, like in the version of software development as
a product, the term telecentre 2.0 refl ects a level of robustness
and maturity. It really is going beyond the IT infrastructure and
pilots to encompass access to knowledge, social transformation,
opportunities and partnership building for collaboration which
provides value plus to the communities as they prepare to become
part of the knowledge economy
