Dr Mustapha Ahmed, Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Technology has reiterated governments commitment to promote the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

He said government in 2011, set out a-four-year Science and Technology Innovation Development Plan aimed at achieving some specific projects and its implementation.

These include establishing an ICT Park in Ghana, promoting access to computers, the internet and computing device, expanding and enhancing the capacity of ICT training facilities and promoting the productive application of ICT t

Ogilvy & Mather, one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world, demonstrated its social media expertise at Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2012 as Jeff Chertack, Managing Director of Ogilvy Public Relations in Belgium joined an esteemed list of established speakers covering the fields of eGovernance and ICT at the forum and presented a session on Social Media and Citizen Engagement.

As Head of Social@Ogilvy, a global cross-discipline team of social experts from across all of Ogilvy and Mathers businesses, Jeff Chertack contributed to the forum by

LAHORE - The first ever two-day E-governance Exhibition was held under the aegis of Punjab Information Technology Board at Arfa Software Technology Park. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the exhibition. Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board Dr. Umar Saif and other officials were also present on this occasion.

As many as 42 software projects completed jointly with various departments of provincial government have been displayed in the exhibition which are playing an effective role in good governance, transparency and providing assistance to citizens.

NEW DELHI: Monday marked the end of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) as one entity. The 55-year-old civic body will give way to three agencies, with the North Delhi Municipal Corporation the first to come into being.

The formation of the north civic body was tinged with nostalgia for outgoing MCD commissioner K S Mehra. He described his tenure as commissioner as not only his last, but also the most challenging. Mehra, a 1978-batch IAS officer, will join the Delhi government from next week.

This was the most challenging assignment in my 37-year-long career, Mehr

Hyderabad:  The government is introducing multipurpose Aadhar-based smart cards to the beneficiaries (citizens) for availing benefits of different welfare schemes.

Fingerprint-based POS (point-of-sale) terminals would be set up at all welfare departments service centers, State Road Transport depots, Department for Pensions, Commercial Tax and other departments, state Information and Communications Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah told reporters.

Smart cards issued to the beneficiaries would be inter-operable across all POS machines (different makes and model

A short summary of the 5th IFIP World IT Forum, New Delhi, April 16-18

The 5th IFIP World IT Forum was held in New Delhi from 16th-18th April, 2012. Attended by over 950 delegates, and featuring over 80 speakers – from India and around the world. This flagship conference of the International Federation of Information Processing was organised in partnership with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY), Government of India, with 9.9 Media as the Organising Partner. The National Organising Committee was headed by the Union Minister of Communications &a

Mission Director, National Rural Health Mission, Maharashtra

The state unit of the NRHM has implemented a comprehensive e-file system which has enabled it to function as a completely paperless office. It has also led to quicker and better decision making and considerable savings in terms of money and time

The Maharashtra office of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has implemented an e-file system and is the only office without a single physical file in Maharashtra. The NRHM has been in the forefront of launching the e-file system programme in order to give bette

Riyadh: The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) announced yesterday that Saudi Arabia occupies ninth place in terms of electronic participation. It is No. 2 in the GCC in terms of providing electronic services, according to the MCIT.

The ranking was according to the United Nation e-Government Survey in 2012. The same source shows that Kingdom is No. 20 in the world in terms of providing electronic services.

Saudi Arabia also ranked by the UN No. 41 out of 193 countries in using e-government. The Saudi government has 1,200 electronic services pr

If all goes according to plan, the BangaloreOne centres will soon be at your doorstep, thanks to Syndicate Bank that has sponsored two buses costing Rs20 lakh to the citys e-governance department.

The buses will function as mobile BangaloreOne centres in areas that do not have this facility. This way, residents, who stay in localities where there are no BangaloreOne centres, can save both time and effort, as they need not go all the way to other BangaloreOne centres to pay their bills.

Currently, the e-governance department has been preoccupied with setting up of Banga

A 3-Day workshop was held by NIC Himachal Pradesh for the Budget Controlling Officers of the State Government at HP Secretariat, Shimla from 19 to 21 April 2012. A total of 150 officials attended the workshop on online distribution of budget and financial reporting software. Both these Software, eVitran for Online Budget Distribution and eKosh for MIS Reports, have been developed by the NIC Himachal Pradesh.

The participants included, Heads of about 85 Departments, Budget Controlling Officers and their support staff from various Directorates. From the current financial year, the