29 July 2011 | Interview

Growth and social equity in Sri Lanka

An interview with the Minister of Public Management Reforms, the Honourable Navin Dissanayake MP, about how ICT provides the foundation for growth and social equity.

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6 June 2011 | News

DoT Strengthens Security Rules for Telecom Operators

The Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, has laid stringent rules regarding the procurement of telecom equipment, making service providers responsible for any security breach in the operators’ networks.

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18 May 2011 | News

Government Efficiency Rankings: Hong Kong tops chart

A leading business school in Switzerland has released the results of its research in its “World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011”, which places Hong Kong at the top of government efficiency rankings, followed by Singapore and Switzerland.

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18 April 2011 | Feature

Tamil Nadu mandates government e-security

Increasingly dependent on information technology, government agencies are paying more attention to protecting their critical IT infrastructure, as any disruption of operation of information systems of critical infrastructure will have a devastating effect on citizens, economy and government services.

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2 September 2010 | News

India targets Google and Skype on data security

First BlackBerry. Now Google and Skype. The government of India not only wants BlackBerry to build data centres within its borders so that its intelligence agencies can more easily monitor communications. It wants Google and Skype to do the same.

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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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7 April 2010 | News

India’s IT chief calls for closer private sector ties

Speaking to over 150 senior government officials at the FutureGov Forum India 2010 this morning, R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary IT, Ministry of Communications and Technology of India, revealed the growing opportunities of citizen service delivery through mobile phones and the need for closer Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

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17 March 2010 | News

India’s govt performance guru delivers key speech

It is nine months since the Government of India announced a plan to overhaul the way it measures how well it is serving the public. The man behind that plan is Dr Prajapati Trivedi, a former economist at the World Bank and now the Indian government’s Chief Performance Officer, who will reveal how India is living up to its performance …

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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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7 July 2009 | News

India to help African state with e-government project

The government of India is set to help the African Kingdom of Lesotho set up a statewide e-network to facilitate services such as tele-education, tele-medicine and net connectivity for video conferencing among the heads of state.

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