News: June 2009
[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
New e-Govt Project gets Singapore Firm
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TCS opens development center in Lucknow
Tata Consultancy Services has opened a development center TCS Awadh Park in Lucknow, India. The center is the latest addition to the company’s Global Network Delivery Model and has a capacity of 1,500 seats. It will develop and implement software applications for global corporations in countries like USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, and South Africa. It will also support e-governance initiatives in the states of UP and Uttarakhand as well as select projects for Government of India.
Sahara Plans to Expand into the Healthcare Sector
Sahara Prime City Ltd, the real estate arm of the Sahara India Pariwar, is looking to expand into the healthcare sector.
High-Security Number Plates to be Adopted by UP
Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has invited global tenders for implementing the high-security number plate scheme for motor vehicles in the state. This step has come about in the wake of Cabinet’s approval for implementing this high-security number plate scheme for motor vehicles in the state through public-private partnership. It had also arranged a pre-bid conference of manufacturers and vendors on February, 2009 in Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh Govt. Embraces Convergence
Lucknow formally launched internet protocol television (IPTV) recently. With this service in place, a person can talk on the landline phone, surf internet and watch television at the same time using the same connection. The technology IPTV is the one where channels are encoded in the Internet protocol (IP) format and delivered to TV using a smart electronic device. The technology is different from the 3-G technology which is wireless…
RTI Call Centre
At a national seminar on the Right to Information (RTI) Act in Lucknow, activists demanded the setting up of a RTI call centre, on the lines of the one functional in Bihar…
IGNOU news
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Jan: AIR started broadcasting IGNOU programmes from Bombay and Hyderabad.
Project Eyeway, Score Foundation
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Eyeway dream
Prachi and Pragya are twin girls who have been blind from almost birth. Information that the parents Manjula and Jayant Mahajan received when the girls were still crawling helped them chart out a life for their girls in the mainstream. The girls today are studying in Springdales School, New Delhi.
Learning by Doing : Madhuri Parti, Kothari International School
How do you see the usages of ICTs in teaching and learning processes?
Until and unless we as schools and as teachers have our role clear in ICTs, it may seem like we are just the facilitators, guides, and the outsiders. It is very important to understand how do we watch and how much we see from outside!
