The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is the proud recipient of not one, but two e-governance awards. Even then, it claims it needs help of a private operator to operate the auto DCR, the computerized system that is used to approve building plans. The NMC was supposed to take over the system free of cost from…
* Obama seeks $14 bln for government-wide cyber efforts * Pentagon budget calls for $5.5 billion in cybersecurity funding * Weapons makers, security contractors to benefit (Adds 2013, 2015 budget figures) By Andrea Shalal and Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the 2016 fiscal year seeks $14 billion…
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the central government’s response in a public interest litigation seeking a direction to government authorities including the Unique Identification Authority of India to “destroy” the Aadhaar-related information collected by them. A bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and justice A.K. Sikri asked for the government’s stand on the…
Dan Shefet doesn’t want you to Google his name. A Danish lawyer who has lived in Paris for 30 years, Shefet has been accused online of professional malpractice, fraud and even having connections to the Serbian mafia – accusations he strongly denies. “It’s been nightmarish. It’s affected my entire family,” Shefet, 60, said at his…
President Barack Obama’s just concluded historic visit to India has laid the foundation for a relationship of hope and promise between India and the US. Among other areas, i believe this relationship has immense potential in the field of ICT and digital connectivity. Already 60% of India’s IT exports, worth $50 billion, cater to the…
To successfully implement e-governance, the country must think about ‘mobiles first’ and give importance to mobile governance, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Addressing the 18th National Conference on e-Governance through Twitter, Modi said: “I urge you to explore ways to provide as many services as possible through mobiles. Let us bring the world…
In a step towards addressing technical glitches which the district administration might face in the implementation of the e-mutation programme and providing necessary technical expertise, the government is exploring the possibility of a private-public partnership in the process. While National Informatics Centre is the sole player for giving technical advice, the government may explore a…
The government’s initiative for creating 100 smart cities achieved a major milestone today as the various stakeholders came out with the criteria for the selection and ranking of cities and also broadly agreed on innovative financing models and urban governance reforms to be implemented as part of the project. The way forward emerged after intense…
The Chennai Corporation will lead the project to offer digitised government services to the people of the city. It is proposed to offer as many as 54 civic services in digital mode. The Corporation Commissioner has taken over as head of the Chennai District e-governance Society from the District Collector. The electronic data processing cell…
BHEL has been conferred with the prestigious National e-Governance Gold award by the Union government for 2014-15 at a function held at Gandhinagar on Friday. The award was given in the category – ‘Innovative use of ICT by Central Government PSUs’, for the project ‘SAMPARK – Online Integrated Employee Centric services Portal’, developed by Information…