U.S. Telemedicine Project in Pakistan
U.S. Telemedicine Project in Pakistan

Through a public-private partnership, the U.S. Department of State has launched a telemedicine service in Pakistan, thereby taking the transformative power of high speed connectivity to improving social services in remote areas.

1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009
1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009

Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.The CSC roll out is part of Department of Information technology’s steps to support Infrastructure under the National E-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services. Department of Information Technology would provide calibrated support through policy interventions and appropriate financial support to create the basic infrastructure for these 100,000 proposed CSCs. All these CSCs are scheduled to be operational by July next year.

Yeh Dil Maange More
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.

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