PAN- African e-health programme at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, will now make telemedicine in Africa not only broaden the scope of health services in the continent, but also give specialised care at the doorstep of the common man.
Galaxy Backbone Plc is planning to provide ICT skills to about 12 million citizens of Nigeria, especially who are living in rural areas. Once the ongoing project will be completed, an estimated 12 million Nigerians will have digital access of post offices.
A teacher of Physics and Director, Mira Model School, K K Dhawan has about 45 years of teaching and administrative experience in India and overseas.
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Access of ICTs to rural women can substantially improve their livelihoods and household incomes, their health and that of their children, husbands and communities
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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NIGCOMSAT Limited, the company incharge of Nigeria’s communication satellite announced that the company will provide Internet facilities over 400 Community Tele-Centres (CTC) nationwide. The project is meant to provide affordable access Internet, multimedia and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) in remote and unserved urban areas.
“We were predominantly a wire line company when we initially started, now we have successfully diversified ourselves into the wireless space. We are also actively thinking in terms of joint ventures.” tells R.K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL) (A Government of India Enterprise), to egov magazine
The electronic governance model of Nigeria has been endorsed by the United Nations (UN). According to UN, electronic version of e-Governance model is a viable option for successful deployment of e-Government services across the world.
The Yobe State Government has launched the Integrated Wireless Telephone and Internet Access project based on the cutting edge ‘World Interoperability for Microwave Access’ (WiMAX) technology.
