The government inaugurated its first cyber regulation court in New Delhi to deal with cyber crimes earlier this week, and is looking to set up at least one cyber court in each region to handle cases related to e-commerce forgery, email and website hacking and identity theft etc.
Cyber crimes involve activities such as using a [...]
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With the launch of the helpline portal help-line.rb.nic.in, President Pratibha Patil has brought Rashtrapati Bhavan closer to the common man. Not only will the portal allow citizens to register their grievances online and to petition the President directly, it would also allow track them to various ministries as well.
Definitely a step forward to build greater [...]
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“a place for the President and his administration to connect with the rest of the nation and the world” is how Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, describes the purpose of the new Whitehouse.gov in a blog post on the website. Apart from the design itself, the blog comes as a welcome [...]
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Taking a cue from the successful use of the Internet and YouTube by the US presidential candidates for the elections, the US Senate and House of Representatives have launched YouTube channels at youtube.com/senatehub, and youtube.com/househub.
Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube, said members of the US Congress would be “posting videos direct from [...]
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The Estonian Parliament approved a measure allowing citizens to vote by mobile phone in the next parliamentary elections in 2011. This is a step up from from Internet ballots that Estonians were allowed to cast in last year’s parliamentary vote.
The mobile-voting system, which has already been tested, requires that voters obtain free, authorized chips for [...]
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So says the fifth study by IDC India to assess the performance of e-governance projects across 21 Indian states. The results are based on a two level survey that assesses every state’s IT vision, implementation plan and ease of use of the various services. It also factors in IT allocation for new projects in 2007-08, [...]
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ITC’s e-Choupal network currently covers 40,000 villages in India and has benefited over 4 million farmers so far. The Choupal Pradarshan Khet initiative, which currently covers 43,500 hectares, has a multiplier impact and reaches out to over 1 million farmers says Business Standard.
And with its initial launch at Sivagangai, the network has extended its footprint [...]
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According to a new study by TCS, India, the world’s IT services backyard, figures quite low in a global e-governance ranking with a per capita IT spend of just $1.29. Compare this with $199 in New Zealand and $153 in Singapore.
According to the WEF Global Information Technology Report, India ranks 44 out of the 122 [...]
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Introduced two years ago, India’s largest e-governance project, and the second biggest of its kind in the world, the MCA-21, which enables e-filing of corporate information with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, is set to be revamped shortly.
The ministry is now looking to launch the second generation of e-filing process, and has tied up with [...]
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In a move which would have significant implications, Gujarat is planning to be the first state to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats, by July2008, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
Each panchayat will [...]
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