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The line of debate
The line of debate

[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

Software Product Certification For e-Governance Initiative
Software Product Certification For e-Governance Initiative

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.

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