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28.07.2006 The Minister of Panchayati Raj Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar informed the Lok Sabha today that his Ministry is preparing a mission mode project for e-governance at the Gram Panchayat level under the National e-Governance Plan.

28.07.2006 In a bid to establish a communication channel to support all its e-governance initiatives, the State Government of Haryana is planning to deploy a statewide area network that will connect the state head quarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels.

27.07.2006 The idea of capturing, storing and sharing knowledge so as to learn lessons from the past and from elsewhere - overcoming the boundaries posed by time and space - is far from being a new one.

25.07.2006 An important meeting is being organized at the United Nations in its New York City Secretariat on 29 August on the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in United Nations' programmes and at the UN itself. About 50-100 attendees are expected this important meeting.

25.07.2006 Four months after Guardian Technology launched the Free Our Data campaign, a meeting in London on a sweltering Monday evening firmly settled at least one question: are people really interested in public-sector information policy?

25.07.2006 With these words from Constantine Cavafy’s poem Ithaca, she set out on what she hoped would be the beginning of some wonderful friendships on the Net. Instead, she is now living out a nightmare on the Net.

25.07.2006 The government is publishing guidelines to help schools, parents and pupils tackle the issue of "cyber-bullying".