A curve to the ‘B’ storm?
[This article was published in the September 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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[This article was published in the September 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The low awareness of value added services (VAS) restricted the growth of value added services in rural India, says a study carried out by Lirneasia, a regional information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation capacity-building organisation active across the Asia Pacific region.
Reliance Communication, a Reliance ADA Group company,which is already working with the West Bengal government to provide various e-governance services is soon expected to launch similar e-Governance and m-Governance services in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar as well.
Intel India announced the launch of a range of desktops which will start at INR.5,000 ($125 approximately).
The Department of Telecom is planning to roll out second phase of the rural mobile project. In its second phase, DoT will roll out another 11,000 cellular towers across 2.4 lakh unconnected villages under the Universal Services Obligation fund.
[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
We have moved away from a time when erhaps the only mode of communication as the postal department. Today, we are iving in a time when mobile handsets have become an important part of our lives and it just takes a mere push of a button to communicate.
The Government sector as well as the private sector will participate in an ambitious one lakh computer kiosks project for rural India.
The Government of West Bengal is working jointly with telephony service provider Reliance Communications for its e-Governance project, for bridging the digital divide between rural and urban areas in the state.
Tamil Nadu has a potential to achieve 25 percent share of the Indian market for Information, Communication and Technology, which is about $30 billion revenue across IT and ITES sectors.
Of the several e-Governance projects that Reliance Infocomm has undertaken with various state governments, three are expected to be over by next March.