Open Source Software To Be Used For E-Governance Projects

The Economic Times carries a report on a draft policy which says all new E-Governance projects should use open source software on computers and attached devices. The Department of Information Technology...
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Employment Exchanges Go The e-Way

Gone are the days when thousands of job seekers made a beeline of employment exchanges to register themselves for job vacancies in the government departments. In a move to lessen the burden on job seekers,...
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India Digital Data To Explode By 2020 – Report

I’ve been going on and on about the boom in Indian telecom sector and internet penetration in India. Quick on the heels of both of these, comes a report titled “The Digital Universe in India” pegging...
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India’s first e-city – a dream come true?

Consider this : You get up in the morning by a surveillance alarm. You switch it off and the house lights up! You switch on your TV, not only for the morning news but also for checking your mail. You live...
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UID Round-Up: All The News on AADHAAR : For IT, Against It?

It’s been quite a while since we wrote about the latest developments on the UID front. The Unique Identification project might just be the biggest changer in the way we lead our lives. Recently,...
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Gujarat Goverment In Association With Gujaratilexicon – Together They Create ‘Bhasha Ni Asha’

Now-a-days the in style argument about newspapers shutting down due to the entrance of another useful medium seems to be catching fire with news flickering from different corners of the world. But I think...
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UID Mandatory, Online Authentication – Updated News

We’ve covered a lot of UID-related news in the past. Check them out here. We’ve been touting UID as the next big thing, why? Because personally I feel that it’ll help a lot with the streamlining...
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Track Your Mail Via SMS

The Indian Government seems to be taking to technology pretty quickly. We’ve covered some of the initiatives to incorporate current easy-to-access technology like email and SMS to further their outreach...
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Rural Areas To Get Subsidized Internet by The Indian Government

The Indian Government started the National e Governance Project (NeGP) in 2003. According to this, a number of services of the government will be completely digitized for speeder operations and...
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IT Department To Host Government Orders Online

In another step towards e-govrenance, the Department of Information technology, Government of India has decided to host all the government orders issued online. Business Standard reports that...
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