News: June 2009

[This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

New e-Govt Project gets Singapore Firm

Simplifying IT : Joe Kremer, MD & Vice president, Australia & New Zealand, Dell

Dell has over 20 years of experience working alongside government agencies, supplying the tools they need to meet their objectives. In India also, Dell views the government and the public sector as one of the most significant opportunities for growth.

MTN invests in $700m Europe-India cable

The MTN Group is investing in a new $700 million submarine cable system, the European Indian Gateway (EIG), to be built by Alcatel-Lucent starting next month. The 15,000 kilometre-long high bandwidth optical-fibre will connect Europe and India from the United Kingdom to Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.

TCS opens development center in Lucknow

Tata Consultancy Services has opened a development center TCS Awadh Park in Lucknow, India. The center is the latest addition to the company’s Global Network Delivery Model and has a capacity of 1,500 seats. It will develop and implement software applications for global corporations in countries like USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, and South Africa. It will also support e-governance initiatives in the states of UP and Uttarakhand as well as select projects for Government of India.

Integrated Government Financial Management : Adaire Fox-Martin, SAP

As Vice President of the Public Services group for SAP

Integrated Government Financial Management : Adaire Fox-Martin, Vice President of the Public Services group for SAP

As Vice President of the Public Services group for SAP’s Asia Pacific Division, Adaire Fox-Martin oversees the strategic direction and activities in the area of public services in the health, education and defence sectors across the region and executive relationships with customers and partners. Ms. Fox-Martin is a key member of the SAP leadership team and plays a lead role in delivering SAP’s offering to public secto

Yahoo Mobile launched

The mobile content service of Yahoo was launched recently across eight countries, available both as an iPhone app (applications) and a mobile content site optimised for 300 devices with HTML-enabled mobile browsers. It was launched in UK, Germany, France, the US, Canada, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Climate Sustainability Strategy : Arun Seth, Chairman, BT India

Our target is to reduce global carbon emissions intensity by 80% by 2020 and to actively engage 20% of our workforce by 2012 into activities focussed on addressing climate change”

Wired to Unwired

[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

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ICT Adoption: Showing the Way Forward to Green

[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Through enabling other sectors to reduce their emissions, the ICT industry could reduce global emissions by as much as 15 per cent by 2020-a volume of Carbon dioxide emission (CO2e) five times its own footprint in 2020