23 September 2011 | News

Follow Home Ministry on Twitter

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made its official twitter account fully operational and said it will tweet regular updates on matters related to the Ministry.

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13 September 2011 | News

India releases social media strategy draft

The Department of Information Technology has released a draft social media strategy for the India government, providing a basic framework and guidelines for use of social media by agencies.

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20 July 2011 | News

Making M-Govt An Immediate Reality in Sri Lanka

There is more work to be done before Sri Lankan citizens can access all government services via their mobile phones, but Chief Technology Officer Sanjaya Karunasena of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka revealed steps that can make some aspects of m-government a reality in the short-run.

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8 April 2011 | Research

E-Engagement in Asia Pacific

Government 2.0 has become one of the new buzz words especially with the Web 2.0 tools becoming increasingly popular in way ICT dominates lives of people. Governments today are becoming more connected and open.

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7 July 2009 | News

Sri Lanka launches multi-lingual govt call centre

The Sri Lankan government has launched a multi-lingual call centre to make it faster and easier for a broad cross section of Sri Lankan citizens to access government services.

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12 February 2009 | News

Indian state's e-services woes

Coimbatore city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, is looking at ways to popularise an online registration of birth and death facility. Despite having the process moved online since 1996, the number of online applications average at two to three a month.

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8 January 2009 | News

India: SMS for police help

The Hyderabad police have launched SMS facility for quick access to the police. In case of emergency, citizens of Hyderabad can get help by texting the police.

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5 January 2009 | News

New avenue for Indian citizens to post grievances

To streamline and improve the civil administration, the Margao Municipal Council in Goa, India, has stepped up on its e-governance by encouraging people to post their problems and seek solutions by sending their queries to the e-mail address: mmc@gmail.com. This email address is being protected from spam bots and will require Javascript to view it.

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30 October 2008 | News

US$250 million passport project launched in India

The Ministry of External Affairs in India will be rolling out the Passport Seva Project, the largest mission-critical e-governance project valued at over US$205 million.

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16 September 2008 | News

Tamil Nadu govt launches entrepreneur site

Wait for it … it’s not a site that lets you register your micro, small or medium enterprises. It’s a site which allows you to submit a form to be given permission to then apply to register your micro, small or medium enterprise.

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