TECHNOLOGY
mCommerce to accelerate eCommerce in India
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India was overwhelmed at the changing scenario of common man in the nation in using communication technologies for running their economy.
Skoch Consultancy Services conducts first e-Governance Census in India
Skoch Consultancy Services, a strategy and management consultancy company, is conducting India’s first ever-national e-Governance Census. It covers projects from all the states to map the spread and impact of e-governance on the lives of common citizen.
Libyan government to distribute laptops to school children
Libyan government has made a deal worth $250 million deal with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to its population of 1.2 million school going children, as a part of the programme one
Labour market not rosy in Asia Pacific- ILO reports
In recent times, in the Asia-Pacific region, has witnessed a rapid, economic and intra-regional trade growth much faster than trade with the rest of the world.
Smart Cards in place of driving licences in Hyderabad (India) soon
The Transport Department of Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India) is planning to replace the existing driving licences with `Smart Cards’ to ensure tamper proof vehicle documents.
Open Standards based e-Governance
[This article was published in the October 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
While virtual reality is being widely explored by the computer scientists, Augmented Reality that improves the human vision and perception is becoming the focus of many researchers around the world.
USA: Missouri moves upward in e-Government survey
The Blunt administration is touting Missouri’s progress in a national survey of online government services.
Massive e-Governance plan to be rolled out in India
The Union Cabinet (India) has approved a Rs. 5,742-crore scheme to set up one-lakh common service centres (CSCs) in rural areas across the country that would offer a basket of Government to citizens and business to customer services.
Involvement of civil society sought for ICT policy development
A non-governmental organisation is working to involve civil society organisations in the formulation of government Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policies.
