e-governance

14.11.2005 New figures from the European Unioin's official statistics body showed that in 2004 on average 85 per cent of European student used the internet compared with only one in eight retired people.

14.11.2005 Peter Alphonse, member of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, called the Right to Information Act an achievement of the United Progressive Alliance government capable of charting out a new chapter of governance.

14.11.2005 The Chandigarh Administration has been awarded the Computer Society of India (CSI) Nihlient Award for the best e-governed state.

11.11.2005 India's national portal india.gov.in that provides one-stop access to information and services being provided by the government was launched in Delhi by Information Technology Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

11.11.2005 The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) is working towards establishing IT connectivity between Dubai International Airport (DIA) and Heathrow Airport to facilitate use of e-Gate card by passengers at the two airports.

11.11.2005 Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) has announced that it will automate two of its internal business processes, a suggestion scheme and the agency’s IT help desk.

10.11.2005 A workshop on eGovernment was opened by the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah (UoS) yesterday.

10.11.2005 Chief General Manager of BSNL's Southern Telecom Projects, Chennai, R. Purushothaman, has said that the second phase of the National Internet Backbone (NIB-II) project, taken up recently, will usher in a new era of communication by taking high speed internet to all towns.

10.11.2005 Turkey has signed US$23.6 million deal for government portal.
The project will involve the construction of an e-government portal for the Turkish government, provided by Singapore-based CrimsonLogic.

10.11.2005 State Chief Electoral Officer in Hyderabad has launched e-registration to enable people to enrol their names virtually in the voters' list by filing Form 6 online at the website -- http://ceoap.apts.gov.in.

10.11.2005 Chairman of the ISRO G. Madhavan Nair has said that India's space programmes exemplify how space can be the harbinger of societal transformations.

08.11.2005 Information technology education in Chhattisgarh is living up to the ideal of social justice. Elected representatives from the panch to the Chief Minister and government personnel from the peon to the chief secretary, all are learning infotech lessons.

08.11.2005 Taking a lead in the region, land records of four tehsils in Panchkula district will be accessible online by the end of December.

08.11.2005 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Monday called for initiatives to attract youth to science learning, creating "attractive" job opportunities for those who take up basic sciences as a career and scaling up investments in research and development (R&D) to make India a cost-effective knowledge hub.

08.11.2005 The co-ordinator of Angola's National Commission for Information Technologies, Pedro Teta, in Luanda highlighted the importance of the implementation of the Government's Steering Plan, saying its will help reduce the digital gap between the country and developed nations.

07.11.2005 E-governance is a digitalisation of government service delivery mechanisms. This has its own advantages which include simplicity of service delivery, morality and integrity in the public sector as well as accountability, responsiveness and transparency in the discharge of public goods and services.

07.11.2005 Chhattisgarh is the first state in the country to have introduced palmtop to be used by panch, sarpanch level representatives many of whom have data about implementation of the Government's schemes taking place even in remotest areas.

07.11.2005 The Right to Information Act 2005 through which the public can obtain information from the administrative authorities is a landmark in the democratic process, the former Kerala High Court judge K. Sukumaran has said.

03.11.2005 Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has said that the rules gazetted by the State Government on the Right to Information Act are not people-friendly.

02.11.2005 The Right to Information Act will empower people as access to information it ensures is set to be an answer to the ills affecting governance, such as corruption, which stand in the way of the country becoming developed, according to experts.