With a view to ensuring greater citizen-Government interface and facilitating public access to Government information and e-Services, the Government of one of the Indian states, Orissa is implementing a scheme that would entail the setting up of 1,000 information kiosks in urban and semi-urban locations spread across all the 30 districts of the State.
[This article was published in the July 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The First Global ICT Stakeholder Forum with a special focus on Least Developed Countries (LDC)
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), has turned to information technology (IT) to help minimise revenue losses, modernise payroll accounting, create a digitised map and improve operational efficiency in general.
A workshop was convened to establish Tanzania Parliamentary Network for ICT for Development (ParlNet ICT D Tanzania) simply dubbed BungeNet. The Cabinet has officially endorsed establishment of electronic-government (e-government), as part of the ambition to turn the country into a hub of information and communication technology in Africa. This initiative to be co-ordinated by the Public Service Department, would enable the government to collect and hold vast amounts of locally relevant information.
The Indian arm of International Business Machines (IBM) is going for the West Bengal government
THE Government is fostering a PKI (public key infrastructure) regime and the four certifying authorities have already issued over 20,000 digital certificates, according to the Information Technology (IT) Secretary, Mr K.K. Jaswal.
[This article was published in the January 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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