Malaysia to issue e-Visa for tourists from India

Looking at the increased tourist arrivals in Malaysia from India, Malaysia is working out modalities to issue electronic visa (e-visa).

Multi-lingual version of Windows XP Starter edition launched

‘Windows XP Starter Edition for India,’ the latest version of the local language operating system introduced in the country last year. The new version provides multi-language support.

Budget boosts ICTs for higher growths

The recent Budget statements in New Delhi, India retains certain hope of positivity for the ICT industry in the nation. The purose of such a Budget is to ensure the momentum created, to continue in the social sector enabling a greater penetration of ICTs in India.

Benchmarking Excellence in Public Service Delivery in India

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Since the past 50 years and more the Government of India has been constantly endeavouring to bring efficiency, particularly in public service delivery through more accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

ICT Policy in Indonesia

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

APWKomitel (Associations of Community Internet Centre), work closely with various ICT and Police Departments in Indonesia aspiring to develop a good Internet policy for both (cybercafe) in urban areas and (telecentres) in rural areas.

Cyber Law in India

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Rapid diffusion nature of the digital technology enables related crimes to escape the grip of cyber laws. Hence there is an urgent need to develop more technology-effective cyber laws much ahead of the rapid technological changes.

Media Lab Asia: Story Retold

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Though an administrative mess and a flop by bureaucratic standards, the interesting thing about the short-term interaction of Media Lab Asia with the MIT, Indian NGO community and India

IT for tax payment in India

The Finance Minister of India has planned up to double the taxpayer base by 2010-11. To make this plan successful, a massive IT networking strategy that promises to increase the number of the tax payers in the country is going to be introduced.

e-Gov Summit 2006 calls for proper implementation of Indian e-Governance project

The Dataquest e-Gov Summit, 2006. held in New Delhi, discussed the challenges in the implementation of the National e-Governance project and how to overcome them.

Online portal to enable e-Filing

The Indian City, Chennai launched a comprehensive online portal to enable e-Filing under the MCA-21 project. MCA-21 was the largest full-scale deployment of IT, in the shortest possible time frame.