WB talks IBM, Red Hat to set open source centre

The West Bengal, (WB), India government will soon set up a centre of excellence in developing applications based on open source software.

DiDA wins UK

North West Learning Grid for DiDA has won the award of e-Governance excellence for education in the e-Government National Awards 2006.

AGS Infotech launches Kisan ATM for rural India

AGS Infotech in association with Wincor Nixdorf International has announced about the launch of Kisan ATM for the rural India.

Karnataka municipal e-Governance implementation

[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Conventional passports with the picture and safety imprint cannot longer respond to security requirements, so governments worldwide introduce, or are getting ready to introduce, modern passports based on the chip which holds biometric data of assport bearer

ICT Policy of Ethiopia

[This article was published in the June 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Ethiopia has no coherent policy in place to support the growth of IT industry. The Government of Ethiopia has embarked on a major effort to put in place many of the building blocks required for developing a robust ICT sector in Ethiopia.

Foss Usage in Africa

[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

There is a global trend toward FOSS solutions, which have become viable, cost effective and sustainable options for Africa