Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) in United Kingdom has re-tendered its successful IT Health Check Scheme, an efficient vehicle for obtaining the services of skilled contractors to conduct mandatory security tests for police forces and related agencies who are connected to the CJX (Criminal Justice Extranet).
The Kerala Police Department, India will soon install
The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) has completed the roll-out of Palm Searching capability to all police forces in England and Wales.
The much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system of Microsoft is planning to delay its launch to January 2007.
The Extol group is planning to launch four solutions before the end of the year- including Artificial Intelligent, fraud-detection system and forensic server for security purposes.
The Central Government in India is planning to fully implement e-passports in the country by 2013, according to Minister of State for External Affairs E.Ahmed.
Millions of Kenyans have been unable to get national identity cards in the past five months because paper that these cards are printed on have run out.
The Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) was formally launched with the inauguration of it at the Connaught Place Police Station by Union Minister for Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran and was rolled out in all the 128 police stations of Delhi.
[This article was published in the July 2003 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
ICT applications in developing countries are often part of an overall strategy for economic growth, relying on the trickle-down effect to those in poverty…. Moreover, poverty is more than just a lack of income.
