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  • Digitizing villages is the way to take India forward

    Introduction of technology in villages would open scope for rural development in India

    India is known to be the land of villages. Imparting digital education to the rural parts of India can help the country prosper in leaps and bounds. It is important for the village councils to get digitized with suitable tech training as we also have e- governance.

    Statistics say that in the Indian Panchayat Raj Ministry, there are 245,525 panchayat offices, including 582 zila panchayats, 6,299 block panchayats and 238,644 gram panchayats. Of these, only 58,291panchayats have computers. Most computers in these panchayats are non-functional or there is no one with adequate skill to handle the computers.

  • dotAfrica receives boost from African governments

    African governments through the African Union Commission (AUC) have endorsed the plan to create the dotAfrica initiative through issuing an official statement by African ICT ministers announcing their support.

    The communique is one of the outcomes of the ministerial round table held at the African Union Conference Centre in Addis Ababa during December’s 2013 African ICT Week.

    With the dotAfrica initiative set to be launch in three months, the statement outlined certain issues, which include the need for the promotion of the dotAfrica gTLD at the national level to be undertaken by information-sharing, education and communication activities.

  • E-Bahamas: A Bahamas tomorrow

    When you look around New Providence today, what do you see? When you think of our institutions, what do they offer? What does The Bahamas look like now? Are we only sun, sand and sea or are we promise, potential, and possibilities? I think the latter.

    Some Bahamians look around in New Providence through impatient eyes and see mounds and mounds of dirt, debris and open trenches. They see workmen and equipment digging, placing pipes and paving the roads on many of our major thoroughfares. I, however, look not at the present state but the future. I see the infrastructural improvements in fiber optic cabling, underground utilities for water and power. I see what the roadwork will offer, what it will change and what it will impact.

  • E-Government at the Crossroads ICT Technology re-shapes the functions of governments and societies

    The second UN World Public Sector Report 2003, stresses that even in today’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-rich environment, it will not be ICT by itself that redirects and re-shapes the functions of governments and makes them somehow different or better.

    However, ICT can certainly contribute to changes in the ways in which governments operate. More importantly, it can force us to collectively re-examine some of the fundamental building blocks of the organization of human society.

  • E-government should be Cayman's priority

    We have touched upon some fundamental policy issues in relation to immigration in our last two editorials and we are now going to look at some practical aspects of the bureaucracy involved in administering this and other aspects of government.

    A complaint commonly voiced to us by those that have to deal with the paperwork involved in submitting applications for work permits in particular is the lamentable absence of downloadable forms, interactive functionality along with answers to frequently asked questions on the various government websites.

  • E-Health Point combines water and wireless to provide healthcare in rural India

    Al Hammond and Amit Jain of E-Health Point found a hook to get rural Indians to come to their clinics: provide clean water. Cheap clean water brings the foot traffic that lets their modern medical facilities flourish. Because there are no local doctors, the clinics use wireless broadband and two-way video with remote medical professionals. Last year their model caught the attention of Proctor and Gamble, whose investment in the company will allow them to scale up across India. Below Hammond describes the pull of the bright shiny medical office, the natural collusion of clean water, healthcare and technology and how he provides affordable medical care while growing his for-profit social enterprise.

  • E-Rate Program Overhaul Proposed To Bring Ultrafast Broadband To U.S. Classrooms

    Following President Obama's announcement in June of the ConnectED initiative to connect schools and libraries serving 99% of K-12 students to high capacity broadband services, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 19 released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) launching a proceeding to substantially overhaul its Schools and Libraries program, more commonly known as the E-rate program. To achieve the ConnectED initiative's goal of delivering ubiquitous faster broadband in US classrooms, the FCC proposes to shift the focus of its program from supporting traditional or legacy services, including voice communications, towards enhancing broadband service. The FCC also seeks to tackle perceived inequities in the distribution of funding by potentially eliminating its priority funding approach that effectively favors some services over others, as well as modifying the way discounts are applied or calculated for eligible institutions. Another goal is to streamline the entire process so that applicants can navigate the program with greater ease.

  • e-readiness: Asien auf dem Vormarsch

    Die achte “e-readiness”-Studie*) der Economist Intelligence Unit und IBM zeigt: Asiens Regierungen forcieren erfolgreich die Einführung moderner ITK-Technologien/ Dänemark bleibt vorne/ Deutschland rutscht aufgrund der Neubewertung einzelner Kriterien und dem rapiden Vormarsch einiger asiatischer Länder von Platz 12 auf Platz 19 der 69 untersuchten Länder ab.

    Vor allem die stärkere Gewichtung und die gleichzeitig relativ schwachen Werte der Bewertungskriterien „Internet-Sicherheit“ und „Elektronische Identifikation“ haben in der neu vorgelegten Studie der Economist Intelligence Unit und IBM dazu geführt, dass Deutschland seinen relativ guten 12. Platz gegen einen mittelmäßigen 19. Platz eintauschen musste. Im westeuropäischen Vergleich unterdurchschnittlich bewertet wurden auch die Konzepte und Visionen der deutschen Politik in Bezug auf die e-readiness Entwicklung des Landes. Bester Platz im weltweiten Vergleich ist für Deutschland hingegen der vierte Rang beim Kriterium „gesellschaftliches und kulturelles Umfeld“.

  • E-skills and information literacy central to development

    E-skills and information literacy will become central in the development process, told Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, participants in the annual event of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.

    Chairing a Panel on Innovative Funding for ICT4D: Human Resource Investments in Attaining the Millennium Development at GAID’s Global Forum on Access and Connectivity and Innovative Funding Mechanism, he pointed out that the digital divide is less about equipment and technology than about content, value and people who are able or unable to access information and knowledge.

  • E-skills, 'imperative' for European growth

    “ICT can empower people and organisations”, said Fiona Fanning, ECDL Foundation EU Affairs Manager at the European Parliament on 19 September. However, to achieve growth in Europe, Member States must give more importance to e-skills, and not only focus them on future generations.

    “The cost of the lack of digital skills and incompetence to e-commerce, e-government and productivity in companies is only anecdotally known”, she said, adding that this “has to be recognized.” Without these knowledge, which is “imperative”, Europe is loosing an average of €90,3 billion per year and per country, she explained.

  • e-Society: how the internet has changed the UK

    The Office for National Statistics has published a new report on e-Society, outlining how internet use has changed and how the internet is changing life in the UK. The report covers areas such as the 'digital divide' between households, social networking, education and work and e-Government.

  • EAC Adopts ICT Policy

    The East African Community (EAC) secretariat has adopted an Information Communication (ICT) policy which will enhance modern internal operations that will also enable easy linkage of information to partner states.

    During a three-day stakeholder's workshop to review the draft EAC corporate ICT and website/portal policy held recently in Moshi, Tanzania, officials underscored the importance of the policy saying that it would lead to better performance and faster decision making processes within the community.

  • EAC: Region advised on records

    Electronic government and Information Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives in the East African Community (EAC) partner states will not succeed unless governments put in place proper record management systems, an expert has warned.

    "ICT systems will fail if electronic records cannot be identified, retrieved and used, if they are stored improperly or if they cannot be linked to related paper records," said the E-government specialist for the Canadian government John MacDonald.

    He further warned that increased financial and performance costs will be incurred if electronic records are allowed to proliferate and grow in volume without proper control.

  • East Africa: UoN tops regional ICT dwarfs

    Websites of East African universities are doing poorly, the latest university ranking shows.

    The web ranking by higher education search engine and directory, 4icu (International Colleges and Universities) shows the most popular university websites in Africa are those in Egypt, South Africa and Morocco.

    Cairo, Cape Town and Pretoria universities top the list of 100 most popular colleges.

  • EC assesses latest IT&C developments in Romania

    In a working document accompanying Europe’s Digital Competitiveness Report i2010 that assesses the latest developments in the European Union member states, released on Tuesday, the European Commission mentions that the use of eProcurement, an important development for Romania, is progressing at a good pace (the number of auctions in the Electronic System of Public Acquisitions (SEAP - www.e-licitatie.ro) grew from under 2 percent to over 12 percent.

    The report also says that in November 2008 the Agency for Information Society Services (ASSI) published its eGovernment strategy, which aims to improve the performance of the public administration at the service of citizens.

  • EC sets out digital agenda to 2020

    Ambitious targets with concrete follow-ups

    European Commission vice president Neelie Kroes today in Brussels formally launched the Digital Agenda for which she is responsible.

    The Agenda is a grand ICT plan for Europe intended to “maximise the potential of ICT to boost Europe's prosperity and the well-being of its citizens”.

  • ECOWAS Ministers of Telecommunication-ICT meet in Banjul

    Ministers in charge of Telecommunication/Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) in ECOWAS Member States are to meet in Banjul, The Gambia, on Friday, to discuss how to improve the sector and make the region more competitive in the global ICT market.

    In a press statement, received here Sunday by PANA, ECOWAS said the 12th ministerial meeting would be preceded by that of experts, themed “Bridging the regional ICT divide”, which will consider a series of measures , notably the proposed termination of taxes on incoming telecommunication calls to ECOWAS Member States.

  • Education technology in Australia

    In Australia, ICT played and continues to play a significant role in ensuring access to education by remote and rural communities, said Elodie Journet, Trade Commissioner, Singapore & Asean Industry Team Leader (ICT, Health and Medical), Australian Trade Commission (Austrade).

    Journet’s role in Austrade demands that Australian education and training is marketed and promoted internationally and it certainly helps the agency’s case when “Australia has become a leader in e-learning content and educational technology systems”.

  • EG: Cairo ranked among top ICT-driven cities

    Cairo has been ranked 17 in list of 25 of the world cities leveraging ICT for economic, social and environmental development by Ericsson, a global leader in telecom technology and services.

    Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index report draws a correlation between ICT maturity and the ability to use ICT to benefit business. Ranked 17, Cairo was one of two Middle East cities included in the list, while New York, Stockholm and London took the top three positions.

  • EG: Expanding technology infrastructure

    The government is reaffirming Egypt's commitment to the planned expansion of its broadband infrastructure, in the hopes of spurring new development in technology-based industries. ICT has grown rapidly in Egypt over the past decade, both in terms of take-up by Egyptian consumers and outsourcing and offshoring activity.

    In March 2013 Atef Helmy, the minister of communications and information technology, announced that the first phase of Egypt's broadband strategy, initially unveiled a year and a half ago, would be completed as expected within the coming two years. The strategy, known as eMisr, focuses not only on infrastructure, with an emphasis on developing high-capacity connections at public venues such as schools and health care facilities, but also increased data storage and access for government agencies.

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