IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

He said that the company currently had 7 million broadband customers, including wireless and wireline ones, which it hopes to take to 20 million by 2010.

However, wireless access to the worldwide web will come at a fee although the BMC promises that it will be much cheaper than the present charges.

The target set for completion of the project is 2012, but the corporation hopes to start internet services in phases from the current year itself. "There has been a good response from companies willing to provide such services... The period for submission of bids has been extended till next month," Neelkanth Poman, in-charge of the computers department of the municipal corporation, told TOI.

"The number of voice lines worldwide skyrocketed with the proliferation of cellular phones, which made the phone truly personal," said Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Mobility Group. "At the same time, the Internet has unleashed an insatiable demand for computing power. Now, if we can deliver ubiquitous broadband based on open standards and drive performance and power innovation on computing and phone platforms, mobile computing has the potential for continued dramatic growth."

The nation’s capital has joined Cape Town and Stellenboschin the race to roll out fast internet to the public, to the especial benefit of the poor, in a move that signals a newfound understanding of ‘digital rights’.

This is just one proposal from a 10-point plan, entitled Developing a Knowledge City Region, published by the body on Monday.

Other proposals include: the introduction of a VAT-free scheme for the purchase of PCs to stimulate a technology-literate society, key government services for business to be made available online only and the implementation of an e-government plan for all government departments and local authorities, and the introduction of SME 'Knowledge Acquisition Grants' to encourage R&D among smaller firms, as well as the expansion of the 'Innovation Voucher' scheme.

Some €120m is being put into the cross-EU project

Applications have opened for local authorities to introduce free Wi-Fi hotspots.

Under the initiative, the European Commission is making funding available to local authorities across the EU.

With and 100 square miles of partially mountainous terrain, Navini nomadic broadband wireless access is being deployed to meet the residential, business and recreational needs of the island’s population of 1.2 million and will be well positioned to take advantage of next generation mobile broadband wireless 802.16e-based WiMAX.

Realising the same, the Delhi government has finalised seven bidders to set up four Wi-Fi hotspots in the national capital. In Delhi, players like Net4 India, Spectranet, Tulip IT Services, MTNL, Microsense have emerged as the front runners to set up Wi-Fi zones in Nehru Place, South Extension and Connaught Place.

Speaking at the Nyeri assembly during the state of the county address on Thursday, Gachagua said ICT is the “engine of modern life” and his government is investing in automation of service delivery beginning with revenue collection. “We are also establishing an ICT master plan and have signed an MoU with Jamii Telecoms to connect key institutions including the county referral hospital, town hall, central police, the county assembly and block C in the provincial headquarters to enhance connectivity and smooth flow of information,” he said.

The Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) on Wednesday, November 9, launched free WiFi at Nairobi's City Market to facilitate e-commerce.

ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo noted that the free public WiFi will be strong enough to handle transactions within the market and a circumference of a few metres around it.

According to Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Rais Yatim, at present there are only about 1,400 WiFi villages in the country and are mostly found in Perlis, Sabah, and Sarawak.

“We are in the process of building electronic towers in Sabah and Sarawak, therefore our big enrolment drive to create Malaysia as an internet community is there now,” he said.

Many will consider a long wait in hospital to be a waste of time, but the introduction of internet services is a good example of how this time can be used in a productive manner.

Mauritius war bis dato vor allem als Land des Zuckerrohrs und der weissen Strände bekannt.

Dies soll sich nun ändern: die Regierung will die Insel zu einem IT-Zentrum ausbauen. Als erster Schritt soll die gesamte Insel mittels Wireless LAN vernetzt werden - eine Aufgabe, der sich derzeit die Firma ADB Networks widmet.