In a move which would have significant implications, Gujarat is planning to be the first state to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats, by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
Each [...]
“Well over 3.5 billion mobile phones are in use around the world and organizations are harnessing this technology to help overcome humanitarian challenges,” according to Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation.
The recent report, Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, examines emerging trends in “mobile activism” by looking at [...]
Gujarat bagged the award for the `Best e-governed State’ for 2006-07 at the 42nd Computer Society India(CSI) Convention, organised to recognise the best e-governance initiatives in the country, especially in the government sector. A total of 17 awards were presented.
Other highlights:
Goa, Jharkhand, Kerala were declared as joint winners of the `Progressive e-Governed State’
Department [...]
Madhya Pradesh government has set up a School for Good Governance and Policy Analysis here to review state policies and its effect on a target group.
The school will function as an autonomous `think tank’ in the field of good governance in international and domestic context and will analyze problems regarding governance. It will also prepare [...]
The Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) has in partnership with several institutions developed a comprehensive software framework for a web-based network of colleges affiliated to universities. This digital university product is a one-stop platform aimed at providing information about the university, its departments, colleges/institutes and various courses on offer.
Besides admissions and exam-related information, students will [...]
A community project to provide high speed Internet, telemedicine, e-education and e-governance services to the rural areas of Tamil Nadu was made operational in Vadugambadi, about 60 km south of state capital Chennai. The facilities will be provided for the first time in India with the High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Wideband Code Division [...]
People across the country may soon access their water, electricity and other utility bills online.
The national mission on e-governance in urban local bodies, covering 423 cities across the country, will cost Rs 787 crore and cover services and management functions, including online registration and issue of birth and death certificates, approval of building plans and [...]
Google Australia on Friday unveiled what it described as the world’s most powerful dedicated election website, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
With an election due in Australia before the end of the year, Google claims its website would be a powerful tool for voters and would help generate debate during [...]
Hindu: In the largest such simultaneous deployment of ‘free-and-open’ software in India, over 15 lakh Kerala schoolchildren on Friday start taking their quarterly practical tests in Information Technology on personal computers using a special Linux version.
The IT@School project of the State Education Department has developed an operating system based on the Linux version Ubuntu. Called [...]
Pop stars are doing it, so are millions of teenagers and even Communist Party politicians — blogging has taken Vietnam by storm and spawned an alternative communications universe to dusty state media.
In an online phenomenon that has exploded in a little over a year in this youthful and booming nation, millions of net surfers now [...]