[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Award for the Innovative Grassroots Telecentre of the Year aims to recognize those telecentres that have done exemplary work in the use of digital technologies to support community, economic, educational, and social development.
“The e-Governance policy should be a sequel to the policy on governance reform. We should bring governance reforms in focus first and then move on to executing e-Governance to achieve those objectives.”
[This article was published in the May 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Himachal Pradesh for its electronic gazette (e-gazette) project and Himachal Pradesh Police Web Portal (HIMPOL) for its ‘outstanding performance in citizen centric service delivery’, has bagged the National Award for e-governance 2008-2009 .
In another initiative towards promoting e-Governance in North-East India, the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio declared 2008-09 as the Year of Capacity Building which will aim at reforms and renewing the system of governance and delivery of public services.
The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is planning to launch a high-pitched awareness campaign for its INR 230 billion e-Governance project. The DIT has earmarked INR 0.15 billion for the campaign, which is likely to be launched around November 2008.
Thirty-one municipalities have signed a covenant indicating their commitment to help each other implement e-Governance in Philippines a representative of a Canadian International Development Agency-funded project said. The covenant was signed a couple of weeks ago at the Subic Exhibition and Convention Center in Subic Freeport Zone, Zambales.
Oman is now holding 84th position in the e-Government readiness index. According to United Nations
The Government of India has approved the Capacity Building Scheme for taking National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) forward across the country in all the states & UTs.
The Rajasthan Government has started a computer training programme for all its employees.
