NeGP: An Introspection : R. Chandrashekhar, Special Secretary,
Amongst the states implementing e-Governance there will be some who will be leaders, others who will be trying quiet hard, and yet others who might not be able to do as good as others
Contributing to development and Convergence
[This article was published in the January 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
While serving to both Central and State Governments IT needs, Center for Development And Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has taken many leads since its inception in 1988
Centre For e-Governance at IIT Delhi
Sun Microsystems India Private Limited and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have jointly announced the setting up of the Sun-IIT […]
Chhattisgarh Bags the Best e-Governed State Award
Chhattisgarh has won national awards in three out of four e-Governance categories. These awards were won by Chhattisgarh in close competition with advanced states like Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, and Madhya Pradesh, at the yearly Computer Society of India (CSI) Nihilent e-Governance Awards…
India
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh will launch the country’s first 3G services on the occasion of inaugurating the India Telecom 2008 today in New Delhi. The service will enable transfer of high speed data, video streaming etc. on mobile phones. The public sector MTNL is rolling out the 3G service…
500 Million Mobile Subscribers by 2010 in India
With the introduction of 3G spectrum, India, the second largest mobile market in the world, is likely to take its mobile base to 500 million by the year 2010, with an average growth of 10 million new subscribers each month…
Sectoral Coherence for Better Governance : Philippe Dongier, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank
“The effectiveness of the investments will be much higher and the expenditure by the government will be more efficient if there are key horizontals to enable coherence of investments and approaches across different sectors, ministries and levels of government” says Philippe Dongier, Sector Manager, Global Information and Communication Technology, World Bank to egov magazine.
Media For Strengthening NREGA
At the meet it is being planned to discuss the most appropriate means of disseminating information to create mass awareness on the progress of implementation of NREGA …
International News
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC), South Korea, has won the top award conferred by the e-Challenges Conference and Exhibition to a helpful e-Government systems held in Stockholm, Sweden, recently.
Open Source – the Opportunity to Transform
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The open source model and its three tenets of community, collaborations and shared ownership of intellectual resources can have tremendous benefits for countries, especially in the area of education and e-Governance.
