Brunei: Treating Citizens As Valued Customers
Customer Service in Brunei Darussalam's public sector is at several different stages of development, but strong marketing may be needed for the government to succeed in selling the concept of treating citizens as valuable customers to civil servants.David Abberton, chief executive officer of BAG Networks and secretary of the Infocom Federation Brunei, commented that quite few parts of the e-government infrastructure was in place, such as the networks, network, websites and ready availability of information online, as well as some transactional services.
Ambitious targets set in Malta’s 2008-2010 ICT strategy
Information Technology Minister Austin Gatt this morning addressed a National Information Society Advisory Council meeting and presented the government’s set of targets for the country’s 2008-2010 ICT srategy.Dr Gatt said Malta had come a long way and had managed to attain all the target set in Malta’s first ICT strategy for 2006 and 2007. He said the My Potential scheme was “very successful” in attracting all those who wanted to start a career in the ICT sector.
India: Broadband Connectivity Essential to Steer India to Next Phase of Telecom Growth
Develop Villages as Knowledge Centres : Planning CommisionThe next phase of telecom growth will be driven by broadband paradigm, said Mr. R R Shah, Member Secretary, Planning Commission at a conference on ‘Connecting the Next 500 Million: Telecom Roadmap for the 11th Five Year Plan 2007 – 12’, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here on Thursday.
India: Rural mobile telecom subscribers
Government have set a target to achieve 80 million rural subscribers by 2010. Department of Information Technology has embarked upon a programme of setting up 100,000 Community Service Centres (CSCs) to cater to e-governance requirements of 600,000 villages in the country in a phased manner.
Bayern fördert Erschließung des ländlichen Raums mit Datenautobahnen
Landesweite Versorgung mit Breitband-Internet wird weiter forciert / Staatsregierung legt Förderprogramm für Gemeinden in ländlichen Gebieten und Gewerbegebiete aufDie Staatsregierung treibt die flächendeckende Breitbandversorgung weiter voran: Um die Kommunen bei der Schließung vorhandener Lücken im Angebot schneller Internetzugänge noch besser zu unterstützen, wird der Freistaat Bayern zukünftig den Ausbau breitbandiger Infrastruktur auch finanziell fördern. „Der schnelle Zugang zum Internet ist ein wichtiger Wirtschaftsfaktor und Standortvorteil. Als Flächenland hat Bayern ein besonderes Interesse daran, dass Unternehmen und Bürgern Breitband-Internet in allen Landesteilen zur Verfügung stehen. Wir werden daher die Erschließung des ländlichen Raums mit Datenautobahnen verstärkt fördern“, erklärt Bayerns Wirtschaftsministerin Emilia Müller.