Uganda government will launch Web portal
The Government of Uganda will soon have a statewide Web portal that will consolidate the individual Web sites of various government institutions.
The Government of Uganda will soon have a statewide Web portal that will consolidate the individual Web sites of various government institutions.
Availing services at the click of the mouse is no longer a service reserved for citizens of metropolitans instead, people from the villages of Kerala are also doing just that.
The Government of California has launched the state’s official video channel on YouTube.com. The project, ‘cost-neutral’, would be implemented without any additional funds.
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The United Nations (UN) has released survey of e-Government readiness around the world. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) were the highest ranked countries in the Middle East. The UAE moved up to 32nd spot from 42nd in 2005.
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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“To facilitate the users/citizens in the rural areas, steps are being taken to immediately start escorting services through CSCs for delivery of various services being given by district administration or line departments from the district headquarters, so that the villagers could avoid the harassment of traveling to district headquarters several times for services like getting an income certificate, caste certificate, domicile certificate and so forth”, informs V S Kundu, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., and Special Secretary, IT, Government of Haryana, to egov magazine.
www.060.es is the first portal to give unified electronic access to Spain’s public services. The new version of the portal will now provide 565 services, which can be viewable from the website.
[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Few observers doubted that the wireless-technology revolution would have an impact on K-12 education, but when third graders start turning in homework using personal digital assistants, we know we