The Health Hiway

[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Market for healthcare services in India is growing at a rapid pace, and a large number of healthcare entrepreneurs are setting up different types of healthcare facilities, right from super specialty hospitals to primary care clinics, and alternate therapy units to specialized centers for wellness management – in the process, investing more than US$ 2 billion every year on infrastructure alone !!

HIPAA for Insurance Regulation

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The provisions of HIPAA have come to dominate nearly all aspects of health care data standards development process in the United States of America. HIPAA is forcing all of the standards developers and many industry sectors to rethink their plans, and, in many cases, to redefine their roles.

Police Ride on Technology to Nab Criminals

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Finger-prints, the oldest biometric sign of identity, have been used for about 100 years. Scientific studies on finger-prints were initiated in the late sixteenth century, but the foundation of modern finger-print identification was established by the studies of Sir F. Galton and E. Henry at the end of nineteenth century.

A case for shared satellite connectivity

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Policing the Cyberspace

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Governing cyberspace by just applying old solutions to new problems will not help us in providing the public goods required for sustaining elementary conditions of local good life. If local governance and policing are to remain meaningful activities, effectively pacifying local environments, new ventures in systems thinking are now required.

Pave your own way through technology

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Bridges to the Future in India

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The central philosophy of the Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) Programme is to bridge the digital divide between the ICT haves and ICT have-nots, by extending learning opportunities to those most in need.

e-Police for Crime Free World?

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Editorial

Rural WNC gets telemedicine grant

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched US$ 400 million program under which patients in rural areas would be able to tap the nation

Recognition for IT entrepreneurship

[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The first APC FOSS Prize established in 2006 to honour Chris Nicol(http://www.apc.org/english/chrisnicol), a long time FOSS advocate and activist who for many years, worked with APC has been jointly awarded to: Free Geek (USA) and NepaLinux (Nepal).