PayMate, UAE’s Mashreq Bank Launch Mobile Services
PayMate, India’s mobile commerce company has tied up with the UAE-based private bank Mashreq to launch mobile payment services in UAE.
VAS for Rural India
The low awareness of value added services (VAS) restricted the growth of value added services in rural India, says a study carried out by Lirneasia, a regional information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation capacity-building organisation active across the Asia Pacific region.
INR 5000 Cr. Towards Free Cell Phones to 50 Million Poor Families
INR 5,000 crore from the Universal Services Obligation fund has been seeked-out by Mobile handset makers towards providing free of cost cellular phone and a connection to families below poverty line.
m-Governance Adopted by Traffic Police in Kerala
Under the pilot project launched by Kerala Government, 38 traffic rule offenders landed in police net after the city police have started using the Blackberry mobile phones. Three complimentary Blackberry handsets had been handed over to the police personnel recently.
Mobiles Penetration Boosts GDP
[This article was published in the February 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There are important network effects which magnify the economic impact of mobiles on development when the level of mobile penetration exceeds a critical mass of around 25 percent.
Usage of Mobile Phones for Flood Monitoring in Bihar
From this year onwards, the Bihar government has decided to use mobile phones in monitoring of floods within the state. This is indicated by Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar during the launch of the Mobile Inspection System which is first of its kind in the state.
BJP Plans Tech-Savvy Lok Sabha Elections in 2009
In the upcoming Lok Sabha next year, Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to use technologies such as free and open-source software, which will bring video conferencing, Internet telephony and unified communication to approximately four million party workers by the year 2011.
World Resources Institute, USA
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Mobile telephony facilitates connectivity in rural areas and stimulates
socio-economic growth and reconstruction process
Vietnam Government to get more
The Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam is planning to expand the use of information technology in 2008 with the building e-Government services.
