Decentralisation Must For Successful e-Governance
Decentralisation Must For Successful e-Governance

[This article was published in the July 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

e-Governance projects always throws up some crucial challenges in the form of rising cost due to usage of proprietary softwares and technology, mere digitisation rather than Business Process Re-engineering, frequent transfer of IT secretaries, and lack of awareness among officials about the larger impact of e-Governance projects.

Cape Town Open Education Declaration, September 2007
Cape Town Open Education Declaration, September 2007

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

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cape-town-meeting) convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The aim of this meeting was to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education.

Open source and education
Open source and education

[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Open Source Software/Free Software OSS/FS) or FLOSS or FOSS is a recent phenomenon which has revolutionised the software industry.

Secure access: Raising concerns
Secure access: Raising concerns

[This article was published in the December 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) has recently developed School Report Cards of more than one million Primary and Upper Primary schools.

Karnataka municipal e-Governance implementation
Karnataka municipal e-Governance implementation

[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Conventional passports with the picture and safety imprint cannot longer respond to security requirements, so governments worldwide introduce, or are getting ready to introduce, modern passports based on the chip which holds biometric data of assport bearer

e-Collectorate
e-Collectorate

[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The effective village-level services aggregated at the district level using the state of art communication technology becomes a viable model having the data centre in the district.
e-Collectorate of Palakkad district, Kerala, is one such model, which uses DC* suite, specially designed and implemented using open source technologies to bridge the services of collectorate and citizens who consume it.

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