e-governance

31.05.2006 Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam's first e-government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.

30.05.2006 If equity, justice, redressal are not built into our ICT strategies, all we will have accomplished is to upgrade our worlds, not change them. A person form Andhra spoke to Samuha members of how a person with a disability had accessed financial assistance through the government's ICT kiosks, and how, immediately after, a Panchayat official had come up to this person, and had asked him to ‘deposit' the funds with him.

29.05.2006 The MCA-21 Initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs facilitating e-filing of documents under Indian Company Law is commendable in many ways.

29.05.2006 Bihar, where former chief minister Lalu Prasad once rubbished IT as an elitist tool, is all set to take a big leap towards e-governance with the government formally adopting it as a state policy on the advice of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

29.05.2006 Right to Information (RTI) and e-governance must go hand in hand. E-governance is a key vehicle to make people at the grass root levels aware of their rights, says Wajahad Habibullah, chief information commissioner of the government of India.

29.05.2006 For many African governments, moves towards embracing e-governance have gone little beyond the opening of websites for state ministries and departments.

24.05.2006 Last wednesday, May 17, the Central State Bureau for e-Croatia published, on the occasion of the International Day of Information Society, the results of the Study of Online Availability of Public Services for 2005.

22.05.2006 U srijedu 17. 5. Središnji je državni ured za e-Hrvatsku povodom Svjetskog dana informacijskog društva predstavio rezultate Studije dostupnosti javnih usluga na internetu u prošloj godini. Prema toj je studiji do kraja prošle godine građanima putem interneta bilo dostupno oko 38% javnih usluga, a poslovnim subjektima oko 29%. Ovo predstavlja vrlo veliko povećanje u odnosu na prethodnu 2004. kada je tim putem građanima bilo dostupno tek oko 4%, a poslovnom sektoru oko 6% javnih usluga.

19.05.2006 The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to few key components of National E-Governance Plan (NeGP) proposals.

18.05.2006 The digital divide is complex and can be defined in many ways
– Use, access, experience, confidence…..

18.05.2006 MORI is one of the leading research agencies on e-governance in UK.

16.05.2006 On Wednesday, May 17th, 2006, when celebrating of World Telecommunications Day, Afghanistan will have completed and launched two useful projects.

12.05.2006 The police will, in a month, start trials of new software to analyse accidents and factors that contributed to them.

11.05.2006 The Supreme Court sought responses from the Centre and the telecom department on a PIL describing the communication towers — put up at prominent locations by mobile phone service providers — as health hazards, because they emit electromagnetic radiation.

10.05.2006

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Justice A.S. Anand

E-governance is strong tool for ensuring corruption-free administration, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday. He was delivering the inaugural address at a conference on `Effects of Good Governance and Human Rights,' organised by the National Human Rights Commission. He urged that "All courts should follow Supreme Court and make judgments available online"

09.05.2006 The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part documentary, "The Code Breakers," to be aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006 examines whether free/open source software (FOSS) might be the bridge?

04.05.2006 Alijansa za OpenDocument format (ODF Alliance) koju čini širok krug udruženja, akademskih institucija i predstavnika industrije, posvećenih rješavanju problema poboljšanja pristupa i dostupnosti elektroničkih dokumenata vlada, čestitala je jučer (3. 5. 2006.) Međunarodnoj organizaciji za standardizaciju (ISO) na uvjerljivoj pobjedi odluke o odobrenju OpenDocument formata kao međunarodnog standarda, kao i organizaciji OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) koja je kreirala predložila taj format ISO-u.

02.05.2006 The Punjab State Information Commission (PSIC) has indicted the Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA) for its refusal to supply the information sought by a Mohali-based senior citizen despite lapse of six months since the date of application made under the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005.

01.05.2006 The Calcutta Police cell set up around seven months ago to deal exclusively with cyber crimes does not have a single computer.