Telecentre sustainability requires a balanced approach of both financial and developmental goals : Mark Surman, Telecentre Support Network, telecentre.org

telecentre.org is a new initiative aimed at building the capacity of people working in telecentres around the world. The main way we do this is by supporting networks that provide support, training and information sharing services to telecentres in a particular country or region. This support for networks includes a combination of social investments and support services.

Information Technology Institute for the Tribes of India (ITITI)

[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

HASTAC (Humanties, Art, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers from the nation

Share, Share, Share or we will be nowhere!

[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

What was once being said for ICT4D projects in India, is being said for the e-Government space as well! India is a country of pilots (pilot projects), with no aeroplanes to fly! e-Government projects in India are too many. But every department is a

The torchbearers of change

[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Citizens have high hopes from state IT secretaries of India and the job is not less challenging. IT secretaries from 10 states speak their mind at Conflux 2005.

LOKVANI: An (e)ffort to (e)mpower citizens

[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Lokvani is an innovative model of Citizen Service Centres (CSCs) implemented in district Sitapur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a self sustainable solution, wherein the existing cyber cafes are being leveraged to act as franchisees, benefiting the citizens, the administration and the kiosks operators.

Popularising e-Governance services

[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Popularising e-Governance services This article traces the whys, and suggests how e-Governance services can be made more attractive and usable to the end citizen for whom they are meant. In short this article suggests ways to

For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule

A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.

Bombay plans cyber cafe controls

There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.

Telecentre sustainability requires a balanced approach of both financial and developmental goals : Mark Surman, Telecentre Support Network

telecentre.org is a new initiative aimed at building the capacity of people working in telecentres around the world.

Benefitting the farmers, farmer

e-Choupal was conceived as a more efficient supply chain to source agricultural commodities for our export business.