Bringing the world at your doorstep
Bringing the world at your doorstep

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

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Weaving the waves
Weaving the waves

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

Community radio is not only an interesting development communication tool but also how a democratising process, which promotes community

‘Rights’ to information, or & ‘obligations’to society?
‘Rights’ to information, or & ‘obligations’to society?

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

Over the past three years Roger Longhorn, Max Craglia and I have been trying to understand the emotions and principles of the debates surrounding rights of access to information, particularly to information produced by government (PSI

Prospecting rural ICT business
Prospecting rural ICT business

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

Drishtee is an India-based organisational platform that provides IT enable services to rural population through a network of village kiosks,

e-Collectorate
e-Collectorate

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

The effective village-level services aggregated at the district level using the state of art communication technology becomes a viable model having the data centre in the district.
e-Collectorate of Palakkad district, Kerala, is one such model, which uses DC* suite, specially designed and implemented using open source technologies to bridge the services of collectorate and citizens who consume it.

Community Information Centres (CICs)
Community Information Centres (CICs)

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

Under the Community Information Centres (CICs) project, 487 CICs have been set up, at the Block level in the 8 North Eastern states of India covering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

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