Spanco Telesystems is going to set up call centres for Indian Railways in India. Spanco has bagged to set up, maintain and operate call centres for Indian Railways for 10 years. The company will set up four regional call centres in northern, eastern, western and southern part of the county
Malta, the tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea has invited Indian technology firms to set up near shore facilities to serve European and North African markets. Since Malta is member of European Union (EU), Malta has given preference to the development of ICT sector.
Kolkata’s emerging IT hub is geared up for E-security barely days after a young woman working at a call centre was arrested for splurging Rs 200,000 with credit cards of her company’s US clients.
Microsoft has already pledged to set up 50,000 kiosks in Indian villages offering an array of public services.
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Eleven years after the Fourth World Conference on Women which was held in 1995 in Beijing that came out with a Action Plan, and six years after the Millennium Summit which focused on some of the common goals relating to gender equality, poverty reduction, education for all, maternal mortality, etc.
Celtel Tanzania Ltd, part of the Pan African Celtel Group has received a $90 million loan for network expansion.
Managing Director for HP in Middle East, calls for technology for all at World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Muscat.
The National carrier ‘Indian’ has tied up with Amadeus to provide e-tickets to its passengers. IBM will undertake the upgradation of processes and systems at Indian to bring it to International Air Transport Association e-ticketing standards.
Over the last two years the Government has more than doubled its usage of freelance IT consultants, making it the largest employer of IT contractors in the country.
[This article was published in the September 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The advisory board members of i4d serve in an honorary capacity for a tenure of two years which may be extended for additional term.
