The three-day Government Technology (GT) summit, organised by the World Development Forum in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The League of Arab States, opens on September 3 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Dubai, to focus on cohesive and practical strategies for the expansion of regional e-Governance.
Enterprise software company Oracle is looking at the greater participation in e-Governance and planning to invest in citizen service centres, which will come up all over India.
[This article was published in the July 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Education is all about giving children the opportunity to experience a variety of things and definitely, the world of technology and all its associated paraphernalia is an important experience that every child must undergo.
Under the e-Government initiatives in Bandar Seri Begawan, ministries are now perusing the implementation of their agency services to help the public, said Minister of Communications Pehin Dato Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong.
The Income-Tax Department in India has chosen Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware as the platform to develop a single national database, to increase efficiencies and improve citizen services.
Teledata Informatics, a Chennai-based e-Governance and shipping software solutions company has acquired Alpha Soft Services Corporation (ASC).
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the Government of Egypt recently with 12 companies in the Oracle Consortium to provide ICT hardware, software, digital content and teacher development to secondary schools.
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India
The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
Oracle is ramping up its India operations in a big way. Now, it plans to add nine cities to its network. These will supplement the six development centres, which it has at Gurgaon, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.
