BHUBANESWAR: The crime and criminal tracking network system (CCTNS), a mission mode project under the national e-Governance plan of the Centre, will be rolled out in all police stations of the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack commissionerate of police in the next six months.

A Norwegian delegation led by Ms Liv Signe Navarsete, Minister for Local Government and Regional Development, Royal Kingdom of Norway, is visiting India from 10th to 13th January 2012, to study the functioning of decentralised governance in India.

AFTER the abysmal benchmarks for poor governance set by the current PPP-led government, it is unclear if any new government can take the level of maladministration and corruption any lower. However, what is clear is that any new successor set up (including a reelected PPP-led coalition) will have to make far-reaching `institutional` reforms if it is interested in providing better political as well as economic governance to the people.

BANGALORE, INDIA: Technology major HP on Thursday announced that it has signed an agreement with the government of Karnataka and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), to conduct a pilot project that will help organizations in the state to migrate from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6.

IT is four years to the universally agreed deadline of 2015 for implementing connectivity targets agreed at two World Summits on Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005.

In this first of a three-part series, our Correspondent LOKILA MOSSO looks at the role of the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) in promoting the use of ICTs in Tanzania.

SAN JOSE, CA, Jan 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Persistent Systems (bombay:PERSISTENT) (nse:PERSISTENT), the leader in outsourced software product development services, today announced the launch of 12 mobile science learning apps for IL&FS Education's Exploriments platform for the global iPad user community.