Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar told reporters after inaugurating a conference on ‘Common Service Centres: The Change Agents’ recently that the government’s common service centre (CSCs) initiative will generate around 400,000 direct employment opportunities and as many as indirect jobs in rural India.
With National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in place, more than 2.69 lakh people have been recruited by the state governments for providing vital assistance for the implementation. INR 39,000 crores have already been spent during the last three years.
In order to streamline administration and expedite e-Governance, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has set up a separate Information Technology department. The existing data processing department has been merged into the new department.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a US$390 million governance programme with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The programme aims to promote a system of stable and credible governance to support sustainable human development in the country.
It is one of the first institute in the country to provide a laptop to each student. Converged wireless network of KIIT make available a vast amount of intellectual resources at a student
The Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, Brunei has launched online fisheries (e-Fisheries) service in the country. The service, e-Fisheries is part of the e-MIPR initiative under Brunei Darussalam’s e-Government project.
A government move has been made in South Africa to train about 30, 000 rural citizens to work in call centres to make the country a viable destination for business process outsourcing for international companies.
The government of Ghana is considering to adopt an e-governance programme as a mechanism to promote lateral and horizontal collaboration among the Metropolitan/Municipal/District Assemblies (MMDAs) to bring information to the citizenry and businesses.
The national e-Commerce portal (ECVN) has attracted around 1,000 local and foreign members in its one year of operation.
In India, Bangalore-based ITS Institute has launched a free e-Recruitment system.
