Pilot Project to digitize and offer historic films online

National Archives and Google Launch have jointly initiated pilot project to make holdings of the National Archives available for free online.

Benchmarking Excellence in Public Service Delivery in India

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Since the past 50 years and more the Government of India has been constantly endeavouring to bring efficiency, particularly in public service delivery through more accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

Microsoft to launch Security suite

Microsoft plans to launch OneCare security launch. The Security suite is expected to bring down antivirus prices.

e-Government in evolution

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Malaysian government has envisioned a technologically advanced society and implicitly, a technologically enabled government through its Vision 2020.

Cyber Law in India

[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Rapid diffusion nature of the digital technology enables related crimes to escape the grip of cyber laws. Hence there is an urgent need to develop more technology-effective cyber laws much ahead of the rapid technological changes.

Opening windows of public sector IT solutions : Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft

The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft

e-Governance project gets Commonwealth Business Council boost

The drive towards e-Governance for Kenya and other African countries has received a major boost from the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) and EzGov Europe.

e-Passport coming soon

Heightened global security concerns led the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to set a deadline of 2015 for governments to equip passports with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. In 2003, ICAO adopted a global plan for the implementation of not just machine-readable passports but also for the use of biometric identifiers in all of its 188 member countries.

Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework for e-Governance:

[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Embarking on massive e-Governance programmes for Governments the worldover to bring about a perceptible change in the very system of governance should not be taken as a matter of course alone

Seminar Report on ICT in Agriculture and Health, 12 January, 2006, Hyderabad, India

[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The two areas-Agriculture and Health being so close to the hearts of many, a high level of interest and participation by the delegates was observed during the National e-Governance Seminar