[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Many e-Health experts have emphasized that IT will and can help disaster management, but much preparatory work is required.
[This article was published in the January 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance should not limit itself to helping Government serve people better but should target to empower them. If this objective is achieved, then one can think of a true participatory democracy.
National Informatic Centre (NIC) is a premier government technical body of India responsible for various computeris-ation projects. Estab- lishment of NICNET & CICs (in the north-east India) have been some of NIC
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Under the Community Information Centres (CICs) project, 487 CICs have been set up, at the Block level in the 8 North Eastern states of India covering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
[This article was published in the May 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The publicly funded health infrastructure in India is in a bad shape. However, the private corporate hospitals and super speciality centres catering to the urban rich are having a field day literally.
