[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The low income, predominantly rural communities are finally becoming a key driver of technology innovations in a large part because of their sheer scale and the huge size of the market which remains to be tapped
The Ministry of Company Affairs, Andhra Pradesh (MCA), India, launched the MCA21 Project on April 20th, which provides all ROC services on the Internet. The services provided by the ROCs include registration of companies, receipt of the statutory returns filed by the companies and issue of copies of the records needed by them.
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
HP has signed three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Kuppam i-community initiative with BASIX, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Kuppam project was launched in 2002, a three-year pilot program that was conceived by HP with the overarching goal of using the power of HPs technology to serve disadvantaged communities.
Rajasthan, India, launches a thousand of Rural Knowledge Centres (RKC), which would be managed entirely by women and women
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), India, signed two agreements with a non-profit organisation set up by Infosys, e-Government Foundation-Bangalore, for computerisation of its financial accounts.
Nortel Networks Corp., a Canada-based telecom solutions provider is focusing on small and medium businesses (SMB), e-Government activities and contact centres for further growth in India.
Kiran Karnik, Chief of NASSCOM said that there are plenty of vested interests, which are inhibiting the growth e-Governance programme in the India.
CMC Ltd, an IT solutions and services provider and a subsidiary of TCS, involved in many e-Governance initiatives in India.
The Government of Jharkhand, India has made a tripartite agreement between the department of registration, department of information and technology and CMC Limited to computerise all the 29 registration offices in the state.
