NASSCOM inaugurates fourth cyber lab in Pune, India
NASSCOM and VOICE, the IT software and services industry in association with Pune Police has inaugurated the state
MCX and NCDEX plans to launch online trading system in India
The Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) and the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchanges (NCDEX) are planning to launch commodity-specific electronic spot trading in mandis of different states of India.
e-Policing system in Nagpur, India
All villagers of Nagpur city are part of video conferencing between village and the district police headquarters.
Bidar police in Karnataka goes hi-tech
In an effort to upgrade and renovate the administration system in the state, Bidar police in Karnataka, India, is introducing IT in its administration system.
Government Bill to monitor telephone, e-Mail and postal communications at Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean government has drafted a bill that would permit the surveillance of telephone and e-Mail communications while making it compulsory for service providers to install the enabling equipment on behalf of the state.
ICT in Indian Agriculture
[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The latest Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers, 2005 of NSSO (http://mospi.nic.in/mospi_nsso_rept_pubn.htm) observes that the average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) of a farm house hold is just Rs 503 in 2003 across regions, classes and income groups with 27 per cent of farmers not liking farming while 40 per cent felt that given the option they prefer other career, due to poor incomes.
Bombay plans cyber cafe controls
There are seven million PCs in a country of one billion Internet cafe owners in India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Bombay, are angry at plans to regulate the city’s cyber centres. They object to plans which would force them to keep records of people using their internet facilities.
A Nation Online: Administration in the digital age
[This article was published in the July 2003 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
If we have to improve the administration of governments anywhere, we would have to do some serious introspection, do a system analysis and figure out where the rub lies.
