National News: April 2009

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

BSNL Towers in Semi-Urban Areas to be Leased Out

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

Sony Strikes a e-Book Deal with Google

More than half a million public domain books from Google’s digitization project will now be available for free on the Sony Reader in its e-book store.This has been made possible by a deal struck by Sony Electronics with Google.

$6 bn Govt MMPs Eyed by IT Cos

The government departments have plans to spend $6 billion in 30 so-called mission mode projects (MMPs). So country

IT Companies Looking Towards SMEs for Growth

Information Technology (IT) service providers are making the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) theeir key focus area for tapping the growth potential of this market. A report by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners early this year had revealed that the SMEs in the country are likely to spend $9.7 billion on IT this year.

Tenders for Telecommunication Networks Released by Libya, Tunisia

Governments of Tunisia and Libya are to open international tenders for fixed and mobile telecommunication network and services.

Towards emPOWERING India : S K Chaturvedi, Chairman and Managing Director Power Grid Corporation of India Limited

POWERGRID has envisaged various endeavours for the year 2009: e-Procurement, Enterprise Asset Management system and Information Services”

GoI Sanctions US$351 Million For e-Services Network

US$351 million sanctioned by Government of India (GoI) to deliver government-to-government, government-to-business and government-to-citizen e-services in 32 states and Union Territories (UTs) across the country.

Cyber Security: Pre-requisite in Cyber-World

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

The creation of cyber world has given us a big responsibility of ensuring cyber security

Towards emPOWERING India : S K Chaturvedi, Chairman and Managing Director, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited

POWERGRID has envisaged various endeavours for the year 2009: e-Procurement, Enterprise Asset Management system and Information Services