Can He Change the Game?

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Nandan Nilekani has been given the charge of the one of most important eGovernance projects -UID.

Jharkhand Government (India) promotes computer education programme

The Jharkhand Government, India has rolled out a computer education and computer-aided education programme to down link based education at the local level. The programme would be covered in 440 schools across the 22 district of the state.

Automated Jharkhand government to be more transparent, responsive : Ram Sewak Sharma, IT Secretary, Jharkhand, India

“Our government has taken the decision that the entire internal functioning of the government has to be automated so that can bring about transparency and responsiveness. We have learnt lessons from the e-Government projects of other states also.