In a survey conducted by Department of Education (DepEd), Philippines, reveals that twenty-five thousand public elementary school students are sharing one computer while the ratio for high school is 111 students per computer.
The National Advisory Group on e-Governance, India, stated that there was a need for localisation of e-Governance applications and that the departments should go for localisation of e-Governance applications.
The National Advisory Group on e-Governance held its first meeting at the Centre for e- Governance (India), under the Chairmanship of the Minister Communications & Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran. On this occasion, Maran also released a CD containing the e-Governance Roadmaps of 15 states.
egov India 2006 Conference, the largest conference on e-Governance in India was held from 23-25 August 2006 in New Delhi. The conference was co-organized by the Department of Information Technology Government of India (GOI) and UNDP The conference drew the participation of a large conglomeration of e-Government experts and practitioners from government, private sector and academia.
A new IT policy and promotion of satellite towns with necessary social inputs are under consideration in Tamil Nadu.
In India, millions of domestic Internet users cannot access some of the world
[This article was published in the July 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Education is all about giving children the opportunity to experience a variety of things and definitely, the world of technology and all its associated paraphernalia is an important experience that every child must undergo.
The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of associations, academia and industry dedicated to improve the accessibility to electronic government documents held the first national event in support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) at New Delhi, which will change the way data is managed across the globe.
Chandigarh, India, will host the international IT event, e-Revolution 2006, the second mega IT event, at Hotel Taj, Chandigarh, on 19-21 July.
The secretary for Information Technology in the Tamil Nadu Government, Chandramouli, spoke to R Jai Krishna of CyberMedia News about the new plans and strategies to make the State IT friendly.
