e-governance

29.09.2005 The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has launched a mobile summons printing and warrant faxing system that will enable traffic officers to re-issue summonses and produce warrant copies to traffic offenders on the road.

29.09.2005 At a cost of just 4 paise per litre, rural India can now have access to safe drinking water without the use of electricity.A high-technology membrane filter, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), can remove bacteria as well as viruses from water.

28.09.2005 Data on pattadar passbooks in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh will be computerised by November 15, said Collector, G. Asok Kumar.

27.09.2005 The Central Right to Information Act 2005 was passed by the
parliament this year and subsequently government of India(GoI) has gazetted the act.The act will be fully enforced by the 12th Oct 2005.

27.09.2005 The Department of Information and Technology has sought the Swedish Government's technological expertise to take up e-governance in 100,000 villages by 2006.

26.09.2005 A new electronic recruitment system is to be launched soon by Abu Dhabi Police, in a major step forward that will allow applicants to submit their documents by emailing them from any location.

26.09.2005 Technology may play a big role in ensuring free and fair elections to the Bihar Assembly.

23.09.2005 Mumbai Police have recently commissioned a new website. Through the website enables citizens to lodge complaints and communicate online.

23.09.2005 China plans to launch eight satellites to warn of imminent natural disasters as it struggles to halt the massive destruction and thousands of deaths they cause each year.

23.09.2005 Bangalore, the silicon valley of India, has high traffic and increasing day by day. To tackle this situation, traffic police in Bangalore is given 30 simputers – simple, inexpensive, multilingual and hand-held computers.

23.09.2005 The silicon valley of India, has high traffic and increasing day by day. To tackle this situation, traffic police in Bangalore is given 30 simputers – simple, inexpensive, multilingual and hand-held computers.

23.09.2005 Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited today announced a strategy aimed at supporting the Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India, in its efforts to address the issue of the digital divide in India.

23.09.2005 Resources to aid news reporting on disasters in the Caribbean have been revised. The “Disaster Information Kit for the Caribbean Media, 6th Edition”, provides background information on natural and man-made hazards to help reporters when covering disasters and hazards in the region.

22.09.2005 The Netherlands is creating a unified citizen database to centralise the management of citizen health and welfare issues.
The new database of case histories will be able to track citizens from birth to death.

21.09.2005 An electronic records and database system was launched at Bahrain’s Chamber of Deputies.The system, which will replace a manual programme, is a turning point in the Chamber’s legislative and administration operations.

21.09.2005 Technology used by extremists in remote hideouts to maintain contact with others of their group far away, and by the military to communicate to their HQs from tough, difficult terrain, will now play a role in shaping rural India. Over 14,000 inaccessible villages in remote areas of the country will be linked by the end of 2007 through satellite-phones.

21.09.2005 The Indian Railways’ e-ticketing scheme, launched with an aim of making train ticket reservations an easier and quicker task, seems to be struggling to pick up in an appreciable way despite a lapse of more than a month since its launch.

20.09.2005 Gen S.F. Rodrigues (retd), Governor of Punjab, inaugurated the e-Sampark Centre in Sector 47 which will provide public utility services

19.09.2005 Cisco Systems hosted a reception to mark the first OCED/ UNDP sponsored Thematic Working Group reception for e-Government and administrative simplification in the Arab countries that was recently held under the auspices of the Dubai School of Government here.

19.09.2005 e-democracy is promising to put citizens at centre stage of the political process.