BSA appoints Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy as country manager
BSA-The Software Alliance has announced the appointment of Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy as its Country Manager, India. Based in New Delhi, Krishnamoorthy will […]
BSA-The Software Alliance has announced the appointment of Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy as its Country Manager, India. Based in New Delhi, Krishnamoorthy will […]
EDITORIAL e-merging India COVER STORY Bridging the Digital Divide through electronic knowledge based Panchayat C. S. R. Prabhu IN […]
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
While government aims to assign unique numbers to a billion plus population for providing a portable identity and eliminating of ghosts from databases, it has spurred a public debate on the potential misuse of UID leading to infringement of individual privacy and liberty and data security
Please give your views on the importance of State Data Centres. How do you correlate this technological intervention with good governance?
First of its kind in India, the Union ministry of communications and IT has decided to set up a certification facility for software security products,in Kolkata, according to BJ Srinath, senior director of the ministry’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In). It would be an important initiative for state governments and various government institutions as it will create security zones for the various e-governance applications, thereby curbing cyber crimes in e-governance.
The Indian Government is encouraging e-Governance plans by setting up the State Data Centre across India.