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[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chennai, India is planning to provide infrastructure support to rural India. The Telecom and Networks (Tenet) group has come with a plan to help rural citizens of India with technology.
The Open University Malaysia (OUM) is the largest Open and Distance Learning institution in Malaysia with over 50,000 students.
The South American nation of Chile will get an improved health system with the help from Central Queensland University’s (CQU) health informatics faculty.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Nobel citation reads: ‘lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways to break out of poverty. Micro credit is one such means’.
The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) is planning to open the new domestic ICT centre in the institute. The institute is also planning to open the research driven centre at their campus. The cost of this centre would be cost approximately Rs. 8 crore and it will involve number of technology instruments for the students.
The Government of Ghana has accessed a World Bank loan to enable it to implement the e-Governance programme.
According to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council e-Society programme, people in Great Britain can be assigned to one of twenty-three
The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria, Professor Maurice Iwu, has emphasised on the adoption of the Electronic Voting System (EVS) in the 2007 general elections.
Director of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon said the implementation of e-governance was being hampered by problems mainly in the government-to-citizen and government-to-government sectors.