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.
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.
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.
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.
The department of treasuries in the Indian state Karnataka, which ushered in an accountable system of financial transactions by starting an online project in November 2002, added another feather to its cap recently. Three years ago it took 45 to 60 days for the government to complete compilation of accounts. But today it takes not more than three days with this e-Governance initiative ‘Khajane’.
Speaking at the e-Governance Forum at the ongoing LinuxAsia 2006, project called ‘e-databank’ was announced based on open-source
The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
Oracle is ramping up its India operations in a big way. Now, it plans to add nine cities to its network. These will supplement the six development centres, which it has at Gurgaon, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Although the computerisation is aimed at making the system work at a faster pace, the very process is a slow process in the state of Orissa, India.
