India News: May 2011
[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India News: May 2011
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Kapil SIbal Inaugurates Rural Service Centre in Haryana
Union IT & Communications Minister Kapil Sibal inaugurated a rural service centre (RSC) in Badshahpur village recently. The RSC set up by a private telecom infrastructure firm, as per the PPP model, will facilitate education through internet, telecom services, healthcare and e-governance-related services in rural areas.
SMBs from APAC Region to increase IT spend in 2009
According to new report published by Access Markets International Partners (AMI-Partners), IT expenditures by SMBs (Small and Midsize Businesses) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will reach US$153 billion in 2009. the report noted that leading IT& T (Information Technology and Telecom) spend in the region are China, Korea and India.
Serving the Unserved : Parvez Iftikhar, USF, Pakistan
USOF India and USF Pakistan can certainly learn some things from each other by looking at each others
GOI on Access Service Licensing
The Government of India (GOI) had formulated the New Telecom Policy 99 (NTP 99) for proliferation of telecom services and facilities at affordable rates across the length & breadth of the country…
Connecting through Integration of Services : Pramod Saxena, Oxigen, India, India
Our ultimate aim in all these initiatives is to connect with the mobile user because mobile telephony will continue to grow at a faster rate, as we have witnessed in the recent past.
VAS Enabled eGovernance : Ray K. Tsuchiyama, NUANCE Mobile and Consumer Services/Tegic Communications
India is still a growing market in terms of mobile content/application and consumption/adoption.
Yeh Dil Maange More
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
After three long years of agonising wait, India finally announced its much awaited third generation (3G) policy for the telecom players.
City Chief Information Officers Their Role
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The office of a Chief Information Officers for the urban centre is perhaps the most appropriate forum for this. Each district should also have a similar CIO.
Enabling Last Mile Connectivity : Ajay Bhattacharya, Administrator-Department of Telecommunications, India
“There are six lakh villages in India and a vast number of them were uncovered with telecom services. USO Fund provides support for setting up rural telephony in these uncovered villages”, says Ajay Bhattacharya, Administrator, Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India to egov magazine
