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08.08.2007 The Indian Minister of Communication and Information Technology has announced that about one lakh broadband enabled service centres will come up in the country by March, 2008. He added that one centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services.

08.08.2007 The Shilpa Sayura project, initiated under the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has won an i4d award at the eINDIA 2007 Conference in New Delhi, India.

07.08.2007 The i4d Award 2007 was given to seven deserving ICT-based projects across India at the recently concluded eINDIA 2007 conference, held at New Delhi, India. The awardees earned the award for their contribution in digital literacy, e-governance, etc.

07.08.2007 The National Secretariat of Public Security, Brazil, has selected a consortium providing communication and wireless security information – including voice, data, video and images – for the Pan American Games, held in Río de Janeiro. The communications infrastructure will be used for the city once the games are over.

07.08.2007 Chennai City Corporation in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu will go paperless. It has proposed an e-governance plan with the help of Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) on a budget of Rs 6.9 crores.

06.08.2007 North Indian state, Haryana has launched the first mobile court in the country for people living in remote areas and incapable of bearing the cost of travel to courts. The mobile court would be staffed like a regular court and transact serious judicial business in both civil and criminal cases through a full-fledged trial.

06.08.2007 Myanmar will implement a cyber village project that aims to enable every village in the country to have access to the Internet. Investment is being invited from the private sector for the establishment of public access centers in villages