e-governance

28.06.2006 Rwanda has been announced the winner of the United Nations global competition on public service on the African continent.

27.06.2006 With the news to have the smart card compulsory by next month, Bahrain is just one step away from a completely digitised economy. The law making smart card mandatory will make the Kingdom ahead of many countries in the region to switch over to the new digital economy.

26.06.2006 The Unesco has expressed willingness to support Akshaya, the State's IT dissemination project, in the field of women empowerment.

26.06.2006 Technology bellwether, IBM has signed an MoU with the Uttar Pradesh Government to give impetus to e-governance by providing quality training to IT students under an ambitious programme titled Project INVITE.

22.06.2006 Satellites can monitor volcanoes, map deforestation, and help sell real estate. But can they document human-rights violations? Yes, activists say.

21.06.2006 U periodu od 12. - 20.06. 2006. u sklopu projekta Fondacije za kreativni razvoj i Omladinske informativne agencije “Informatizacija srednjih škola na području Zenice” lokalna je grupa mladih iz Zenice održala 8 sastanaka sa direktorima 8 zeničkih srednjih škola te profesorima informatike istih škola.

20.06.2006 The Ministry of Justice has decided on its shortlists for two infrastructure projects, which could be worth as much as $500 million over seven years, industry sources suggest.

19.06.2006 The region’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, who have been meeting here for the thirty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly of the OAS, today adopted the Declaration of Santo Domingo on the central theme of the meeting: “Good Governance and Development in the Knowledge-based Society.”

19.06.2006 E-governance enhances the efficacy of citizen and government interaction. This has been made possible by public-private sector partnerships leading to the availability of more affordable and rugged PCs to suit operating conditions in the hinterland and deepening Internet penetration. With the realisation of e-governance projects in India, the time has come to review the role of the public sector as well as private sector to speed up the process of implementation of different projects related to e-governance.

19.06.2006 UNDP will assist the Association of Kosovo Municipalities (AKM) to become member of the regional organization LOGINCEE, through funding a project which was signed on Frida y, 16 June between the UNDP Resident Representative, Frode Mauring and the President of Asociation of Kosovo Municiaplities, Ismet Beqiri.

19.06.2006 The World Bank has canceled more than seven million dollars in aid to Cambodia after finding evidence of fraud and corruption in three development projects.

19.06.2006 Bahrain's government moved into the hi-tech age yesterday with the launch of Bab Al Bahrain website. It will link all government ministries and help speed up services to citizens via the Internet.

19.06.2006 The World Bank has approved a US$111.5 million credit to strengthen the country's network of about 4,500 Union Parishads to respond to community needs and deliver services through a transparent fiscal transfer system.

15.06.2006 Orissa today unveiled two e-governance roadmaps here to ascertain the present capacity and potential for improvements through information communication technology (ICT) intervention.

15.06.2006 In the first step towards e-Governance, the State government has launched its own indigenous special software called 'Office Procedure Automation Software', developed by the State’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cell.

12.06.2006 The proliferation and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) present opportunities and challenges to us all; not just to large countries and developed countries but also to developing islands and small states.

07.06.2006 The critical infrastructures of nations are based nowadays on information technology and this is the essential issue for both national authorities and terrorist groups.

07.06.2006 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has called for an integrated approach by the Intelligence Bureau and the police for tackling cross-border terrorism.

07.06.2006 Eva Rathgeber writes about the necessity of recognising women and men having different patterns of using computers and internet and the importance of national governments employing gender analysis when launching eGovernment initiatives.

02.06.2006 U ponedjeljak je službeno objavljeno kako je T-Hrvatski telekom, kompanija nastala transformacijom i privatizacijom nacionalne telekomunikacijske kompanije i donedavni potpuni monopolist u fiksnoj telefoniji akvizicijom vrijednom 13,7 milijuna Eura postala 100 postotni vlasnik dionica IskonInterneta, jednog od uspješnijih ISP-ova u Hrvatskoj. Time je T-HT uklonio najjačeg konkurenta na tržištu internetskih usluga i prema podacima iznesenim u dnevniku Večernji list, zauzeo 83 posto tog tržišta.