Software maker Microsoft has outlined a worldwide public services and e-government strategy to provide governments with the prescriptive guidance and technology to focus on seamless service deliveries for citizens.
About 250 million birth, death and marriage records held by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK, are to be data captured out of the southern Indian city Chennai. The city centre of Siemens Business Services (SBS) would help its parent to scan, digitise and index the records from the year 1837 to the present day.
Caspian, the leading supplier of advanced policy-based traffic management solutions for IP networks, announced today the successful deployment of its Media Controller solutions by Korea Telecom (KT) for the South Korean e-Government (e-Gov) project.
Indian Railway (IR) will set up call centres for customer care and to provide several utilities.
The Government of the Indian state Karnataka, in collaboration with Intel, has announced ‘Gyanodaya’, a Government Assisted PC Purchase Program which aims to encourage PC adoption among State Government employees and bridge the digital divide by providing easy and affordable PC purchase options.
The simple, moral, accountable, responsive and transparent (SMART) objective of e-Governance in the Indian state Orissa is yet to be flfilled although the State Government is claimed to have computerised tehsils and block-level administration and has initiated the process of computerisation of land records.
IT major Microsoft is to invest $1.7 billion in India and also partner the government of India in pushing e-Governance through National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG).
Railways would set up 22 call centres with a common telephone number – 139 across India, besides launching a National Train Enquiry System (NITES) and management information system.
[This article was published in the May 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The introduction of Information Technology (IT) has affected many noticeable differences in trying to fulfil everyday needs for both the rural and urban community.
[This article was published in the October 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Free/GNU platform was making strides on software front in many ways but a little slowly on Indian languages. But this slowness was steadily towards universal standards and hence almost deliberate.
