e-governance

17.04.2006 Computer mediated communication can bring about information revolution where it would challenge the power of bureaucracy and ruling elites who are unwilling to share information with the public to maintain their hegemony on people.

17.04.2006 The information and communication technology tools can make every action of any person transparent, both the governed and that of those that govern; the corrupt as well as those that bribe.

17.04.2006 The Delhi Fire department is going to launch a computerised command and control system that will not only help in reducing response time when a call is received by it but will also help in bringing more efficiency in its work.

14.04.2006 China has begun publishing government tenders on dgMarket.com, the leading independent website aggregating government procurement information from 150 countries. dgMarket, created by the Development Gateway Foundation, aims to increase access to government contracting and bring down government procurement costs through greater competition.

12.04.2006 Designed and anchored by the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, the GNLG website contains an array of information on the trends and developments in the field of local governance at the global level. Besides providing information on the state of local governance across the world, the website also proposes to facilitate online discussion on contemporary issues like decentralization, grassroots democracy and empowerment of disadvantaged groups.

12.04.2006 Working actively for new global political systems that are adequate to the needs of an emerging information society is an important and urgent task. It is important therefore that powerful South-South alliances are built, with participation from across sub-national and local governments as well as traditional civil society and grassroots organizations, for evolving a new paradigm of a development-oriented information society for the South.

12.04.2006 In a move to computerise the entire operations of Congress, the House of Representatives in partnership with Microsoft Corp. Philippines opened an information and communications technology (ICT) e-Learning Center.

12.04.2006 There is an extraordinarily large financial outlay for bringing in electronically-enabled systems into governance processes.

12.04.2006 The Karnataka High Court has embarked upon an ambitious project to computerise the judicial network in the State, including district and taluk courts.

12.04.2006 The Society for IT Initiative Fund for e-Governance is a body under the administrative control of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Haryana Government. The Society seeks qualified professionals to join its team of e-governance.

05.04.2006 After a major overhaul of the electoral rolls, the Election Commission (EC) in India is now focussing on a new software aimed at checking malpractices by polling personnel.

05.04.2006 Come August, nationalised banks in the city will be directly connected to the Lalbazar police headquarters.

03.04.2006 On face of it, Orissa has an impressive record in computer education — 425 government high schools, equipped with 1,574 computers, and 850 teachers imparting computer training to school-children. At least, this is what official records say.