e-governance

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.

22.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.

18.07.2006 Last week, on July 12, the Government of Croatia adopted an official document titled Directions for Development and Use of Open Source Code Computer Programmes in Bodies and Institutions of State Administration. In the document, the Government accepts the responsibility to develop, prepare and procure open-source software solutions in the development of information systems of state administration bodies.

18.07.2006 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has published a book on - Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Telecommunications.Drawing upon a series of case studies exploring the relationship between telecommunications and development in Bangladesh, China, India, Ghana, Laos, Peru, and East Africa, editors Joachim von Braun and Maximo Torero seek to answer critical questions that can help guide policymakers on how information technology affects the development of low-income countries.

12.07.2006 The Government of Serbia will invest, by the end of 2007, 34 million EUR in electronic governance, announced Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic. The investment has been included in the first sector plan under the auspices of the National Investment Plan in the area of science and electronic governance, adopted recently by the Government.

10.07.2006 After lagging behind in the Information and Technology gravy train for years, the Bihar government is finally taking steps to catch up with other developed states by equipping all of their 26 ministers with sophisticated laptop computers under the national e-governance plan of the Central government.

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia has published an action research report - Improving Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Pro Poor Government Services - that shows that information and communication technologies (ICTs) plan an important role in enabling people to have better access to government services. Download the report (pdf).

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia has published a two-year action research report - Improving Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Pro Poor Government Services - that shows that information and communication technologies (ICTs) plan an important role in enabling people to have better access to government services.