We Want the Government to Work on Next Phase of NeGP : Jaijit Bhattacharya, Country Director, Government Strategy, Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.

Jaijit Bhattacharya is responsible for the creation of the next generation of solutions for the governments, based on open standards. Bhattacharya also advises governments on e-Governance strategies. He is an e- overnance advisor to Government of Sri Lanka and has been conducting trainings for ADB institute in Tokyo on Public Expenditure Management as well as helping the World Bank develop curriculum for their e-Leadership programme.

Capacity Building Scheme in India under NeGP

The Government of India has approved the Capacity Building Scheme for taking National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) forward across the country in all the states & UTs.

Touching the Lives of Citizens : MG Kiran, Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Sikkim

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A Long-Term Partner : Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.

Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India is responsible for Microsoft

More ICT = Better Results? : N. Ravi Shanker, Jt. Secretary & Group Coordinator E-Infrastructure/E-Learning Group

ICT in schools would be such that, were there are a number of facilities lacking, if you are able to deploy ICT, you may be able to perhaps, permeate better into the minds of the students with the use of ICT.

Learning by doing : Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director, Microsoft, Global Community Affairs Greater Seattle Area

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Secure Connections in Challenging Environments : Subodh Vardhan, Director Sales and Country Head (Government and Public Safety), Motorola India

Subodh leads the team that is responsible for marketing and deployment of private networks for public safety, defence, railways and enterprise customers. This includes two way radio networks as well as networks based on wireless broadband technologies for campus and municipal Wi-Fi, point to point and point to multi-point connectivity. Subodh is also introducing defence, transportation (railways, airports, seaports etc) and enterprise customers to state of the art communications technologies.

Empowerment through ICT : Oleg Petrov, World Bank

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Providing End-to-end e-Government Solutions/Services : Prakash Rane, Managing Director, ABM Knowledgeware Ltd.

Prakash Rane pioneered several trend setting concepts/projects in e-Governance in India with products and solutions developed by ABM. These concepts are mainly in the area of IT enabling citizen/consumer services.

Challenges for Health Insurers & TPAs

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The issue of data has presented several challenges to all the health insurance industry stakeholders. Till a couple of years ago, the primary challenge was that the data requirements and uses of data was not always fully understood by some critical stakeholders.