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11.12.2007 Kerala will soon become the first Indian state to achieve total IT literacy. ICT-based education has shown promising results. Now decision to equip 2,800 high schools with broadband internet connectivity by August next year would open up immense possibilities in the education sector.

08.12.2007 In India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, Krishnagiri district administration has come out with a unique idea. To ensure that children attend school regularly, it is using a software known as ‘back2school’ that provides an eagle eye to district collector to keep track of all kids missing from classrooms.

08.12.2007 Indian government plans to bring e-Governance at the doorstep of every citizen in the country. Once implemented, it will be one of its kind with such a geographical spread. It is for the first time in the world that such a scheme is being implemented in a public private partnership framework.

07.12.2007 IBM could not resist itself from tapping opportunities that the booming private health sector in India offers. The company will provide range of IT solutions from patient record management to creating a vault of information for doctors, nurses, insurers, and much more.

04.12.2007 Village Resource Centres - to provide integrated services like tele-education, tele-medicine, etc. - have been established by the Indian Space Research Organisation in various Indian states.

29.11.2007 Google’s new mobile technology is able to track a user’s location within 400 metres. The tracking system, however, does not infringe upon a person’s privacy by not collecting a user’s phone number or any other personal details.

29.11.2007 Universal Library project has now digitised more than 1.5 million published books in 20 different languages of the world and continues to scan thousands more daily. All these books in Chinese, English, Arabic, Telugu, etc. are now available on internet – free of cost.