Government of India Launches e-Passport

The Government of India plans to issue e-passports to diplomats from next month and to the citizens from the September 2010 onwards.

India: Orissa Government to Roll Out 8558 Common Service Centres

The Government of Orissa (India) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three private operators to roll out 8558 Common Service Centres (CSCs) in the state. Those centres will be developed on build-own-operate (BOO) model for first five years.

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.

Higher Education at the Leading Edge

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

India presents a developmental paradox. It is one the fastest growing economy in the world and yet millions live in poverty and illiteracy. Sustaining the current growth and making it inclusive will depend on our ability as a nation to address this divide.

Digital Green: Agricultural Extension

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Digital Green is a project to raise the incomes of smallholder farmers in South Asia and Africa by the production and
dissemination of locally relevant agricultural information through participatory video and mediated instruction.

India Formulating a National Policy on ICT in School Education

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

How do teachers, administrators and policy makers feel about their experiences with technology? Is there a balance between teaching about technology as a subject, and as a tool for learning?

Collaborative Technologies for Enhanced Teaching

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

ICT can improve the quality of teaching, learning and management in schools and so help raise standards. When the quality teaching and learning is done creatively and collaboratively, it works wonder for the education community in terms of their capacity building.

National Seminar on ‘Grassroots Level Informatics Development Programs’ 9 May, 2008

[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India organised a national seminar,

Building an online learner support system

[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Indira Gandhi National Open University is the largest university in the world today with more than 1.8 millions of students enrolled.

Pan-african e-network

[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, while addressing during one of the sessions of the Pan-African Parliament