[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.
[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
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.
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.org is a new initiative aimed at building the capacity of people working in telecentres around the world.
e-Choupal was conceived as a more efficient supply chain to source agricultural commodities for our export business.
[This article was published in the October 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The aspect of gender in the whole ICT circle though very important is least debated.
Research institutes should primarily make the results of their research accessible to the general public.
Rakesh Mehta is an active e-Government evangelist, who is continually contributing towards betterment of municipal services in Delhi through use of citizen-centric technologies.
“Today, Governments from across the world are looking at the model of e-Governance adopted in India and are showing interest in India
