[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Eleven years after the Fourth World Conference on Women which was held in 1995 in Beijing that came out with a Action Plan, and six years after the Millennium Summit which focused on some of the common goals relating to gender equality, poverty reduction, education for all, maternal mortality, etc.
egov India 2006 Conference, the largest conference on e-Governance in India was held from 23-25 August 2006 in New Delhi. The conference was co-organized by the Department of Information Technology Government of India (GOI) and UNDP The conference drew the participation of a large conglomeration of e-Government experts and practitioners from government, private sector and academia.
India will soon establish a government-to-business (G-2-B) portal to provide easy communication and service linkage to foreign and domestic investors.
Government of India (GOI) has dropped the move to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the current session of Parliament to keep out of public purview file noting in some areas.
The Rajya Sabha (India) has informed that India has outstripped China and Russia in information technology (IT) race.
It is mandatory for corporates to file annual returns and balance sheets electronically as the Registrars of Companies (India) will stop accepting these documents in physical form from September 16.
NIIT, Intel, the Madhya Pradesh (MP) State Electronics Development Corporation, and the MP government have joined hands on ‘Gyanodya’, an Information Communication Technology (ICT) enabled education project in the government schools.
A three-day event on Information, Communications and Technology (ICT), Connect 2006, will be held in Chennai between September 8 and 10.
The Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called on the Government to encourage growth of the information communication technology sector.
Mission 2007 to establish knowledge centres in 6,00,000 villages of India as envisioned by M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the MSSR Foundation (MSSRF)and Mission chairperson.
