Hindrances to e-Voting
The controversy on e-Voting is still going on in the House of Representatives on the suitability or otherwise of the use of e-Voting in the 2007 general elections of Nigeria.
Scots to test e-Count
The Scottish Executive is organising a series of trials on the electronic counting of votes in an election. The first trial will last for a week and be followed by similar trials in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
e-Governance in Indian state draws accolades
The department of treasuries in the Indian state Karnataka, which ushered in an accountable system of financial transactions by starting an online project in November 2002, added another feather to its cap recently. Three years ago it took 45 to 60 days for the government to complete compilation of accounts. But today it takes not more than three days with this e-Governance initiative ‘Khajane’.
e-Governance Conference in India calls for PPP
The three-day ninth National e-Governance Conference last week recommended higher adoption of public private partnerships (PPP) and amendment to the sections on e-Governance in the Information Technology Act. The conference, attended by heads of State IT departments and representatives from IT majors, also wanted legislative changes to boost the PPPs, besides urging the Government to evolve a policy on user charges.
‘E-roll cleaning package’ to weed out duplicate voters
The Election Commission in India has deployed an ‘E-roll cleaning’ package to weed out duplicate voters from the electoral rolls in five states where Assembly elections are to be held shortly.
Rs 6000 cr government scheme on ‘rural service delivery centres’ in India
The Government of India is actively considering a Rs 6000 crore scheme to set up Information Technology-driven ‘rural service delivery centres’ in 100,000 villages.
Korea Telecom Deploys Caspian for Leading Edge E-Government Services Delivery
Caspian, the leading supplier of advanced policy-based traffic management solutions for IP networks, announced today the successful deployment of its Media Controller solutions by Korea Telecom (KT) for the South Korean e-Government (e-Gov) project.
e-Governance project gets major CBC boost
The drive towards e-governance for Kenya and other African countries has received a major boost from the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and EzGov Europe.
EU plans immigration exchange
A cross border data sharing system will warn EU governments on immigration patterns
