Assessing National e-Readiness
Assessing National e-Readiness

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

By Seema Hafeez,
Sr Economic Affairs Officer, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

ICT for Disaster Management at UN Workshop
ICT for Disaster Management at UN Workshop

The United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development, a regional institute of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-APCICT/ESCAP), kicked off the Fourth Regional Training of Trainers Workshop in Seongnam, Republic of Korea. The five-day workshop was held from 22-26 February and aimed at giving training on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for disaster risk management and climate change abatement.

Forum gets in action frame
Forum gets in action frame

[This article was published in the February 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Participants agreed that discussions were broadly completed and there was enough clarity to start executing plans now

Food for All
Food for All

[This article was published in the September 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

PDS must be ridded of its weeds to reach its most rightful recipient

The process accelerator
The process accelerator

[This article was published in the September 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

A few rollouts exemplify that adoption of e-procurement systems can bring in unprecedented efficiencies in governments

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