6 June 2011 | News

Mobile money order service launched in Bihar and Punjab

The India Post has partnered with BSNL to launch the Mobile Money Order Service (MMOS) in 10 post offices each in the states of Bihar and Punjab.

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20 October 2010 | News

Public-private coalitions key to digital divide

Public and private sector partnerships are needed to address the digital divide in Asia’s emerging economies, according to government officials at the recent FutureGov Summit.

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13 July 2010 | Research

Asian E-Government in 2010

FutureGov announces the availability of a new report Asian E-government in 2010 – winning citizen trust for Government ICT initiatives. The study, based on a survey of 121 public sector officials from eight Asia Pacific countries and economies (within the Government, Education and Healthcare sectors) found that there was scope for increased deployment of E-government services across all organisations. Over 45 per cent of respondents indicated that they offered less than ten such e-services to citizens.

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31 May 2010 | News

Japan to help India build green cities

India has hatched plans to build state-of-the-art, eco-friendly habitats with world-class facilities with the help of Japanese technology firms. The likes of Hitachi, Mitsubishi, JGC Corp and Toshiba will design and build the eco-friendly towns along the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), passing through six Indian states.

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10 May 2010 | News

Indian state reaches poor via mobile phone

The state of Rajasthan in northern India has launched an e-governance initiative that aims to communicate essential information to the underprivileged via mobile phones. The system incorporates data migration, text-to-speech conversion in local languages, automatic dialing, and voice message transmission.

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5 May 2010 | Interview

India: role model for govt transformation

India’s government is transforming apace. Since the introduction of the National e-Governance Plan in 2006 it has leapfrogged into a new era of governance. The world’s largest democracy still faces many challenges, but great opportunities lie ahead.

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25 January 2010 | News

Appeal for billion-dollar e-governance project in India

A development programme director for India’s poorest regions has called on foreign and domestic service-providers to help with a local government capacity building exercise for an area that covers 40 per cent of the country. Sudhir Krishna, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, told FutureGov that the 1000 crore rupees (US$217 million) project needed best-of-breed providers to ensure its success. Another project, known as e-Panchayat, will see around 4500 crore rupees (US$978 million) spent on improving service delivery at the village level.

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19 January 2010 | Feature

Should data centres be outsourced?

Government data centre outsourcing contracts can help local IT players grow. This creates jobs and boosts the local economy. But the real dynamics of data centre outsourcing have been slow to take off in Asia. Why?

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23 September 2009 | News

Bangaloreans get govt services home delivered

The Indian city of Bangalore, the country’s third most populous city, has hatched plans to launch a series of mobile e-service centres to bring government services closer to citizens.

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5 August 2009 | News

Pakistani province to connect govt agencies

The government of Punjab in Pakistan plans to be set up an inter-agency computer network to facilitate information sharing by next year.

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