The simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent (SMART) objective of e-Governance in the Indian state Orissa is yet to be flfilled although the State Government is claimed to have computerised tehsils and block-level administration and has initiated the process of computerisation of land records.
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance should not limit itself to helping Government serve people better but should target to empower them. If this objective is achieved, then one can think of a true participatory democracy.
[This article was published in the December 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The key role of ICT in the prevention and mitigation efforts for HIV/AIDS in India is generating awareness and providing practical information to people and in capacity building.
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Citizens have high hopes from state IT secretaries of India and the job is not less challenging. IT secretaries from 10 states speak their mind at Conflux 2005.
National Informatic Centre (NIC) is a premier government technical body of India responsible for various computeris-ation projects. Estab- lishment of NICNET & CICs (in the north-east India) have been some of NIC
With a view to ensuring greater citizen-Government interface and facilitating public access to Government information and e-Services, the Government of one of the Indian states, Orissa is implementing a scheme that would entail the setting up of 1,000 information kiosks in urban and semi-urban locations spread across all the 30 districts of the State.
