At a technology awareness seminar for the financial services sector, sponsored by Fujitsu and the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development, at Hilton Barbados, the Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development Minister, Lynette Eastmond has said that there is not much more that government can do to create an enabling environment for greater use of e-Commerce in the financial services sector.
On 14 July 2006, at International Telecommunication Union Headquarters in Geneva, under the chairmanship of ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi, with the launch of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS), the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gathered momentum.
The President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo launched the Computer for All Nigerians Initiative (CANI) aimed at easing access to, and use of computers amongst all Nigerians in irrespective of class, age gender and location.
A series of new reports have again raised questions about the security of electronic voting machines, with one report identifying multiple vulnerabilities.
African Parliamentary officials from eleven countries, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum and the Pan African Parliament will discuss at a United Nations workshop the benefits of applying Information and Communications Technologies to their work in order to promote parliamentary democracy.
With the realisation of e-Governance projects in India, the time has come to review the role of the public sector as well as private sector to speed up the process of implementation of different projects related to e-Governance.
The Secretary-General of United Nations, Kofi Annan recently approved the launch of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Development
The President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam mooted a five pint suggestion for the efficient working of the police department of the country at the 37th All India Police Science Congress. He suggested for a nationwide database of criminals so that it would be available online at all police stations and the data should be updated continuously.
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation introducing biometric identifiers in the Visa Information System (VIS).
Accra, Ghana (Africa) organised a two-day seminar on e-Governance on 4-5 May 2006. The seminar urged the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to develop their own websites so that they could disseminate information online to the public to save time and cost.
