Infosys is all set to become India’s e-governance favourite; after just months of bagging a contract from India Post, it has beaten closest rival Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to win the next phase of flagship projects by ministry of corporate affairs. The MCA-21 project will begin by January 2013 as per a government official who did not wish to be identified. "We rec
Union minister for law Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that all courts in the country will get computerised in the next three years as part of steps taken to improve justice delivery system in India. "Computerisation is a major priority. In the next three years, all courts in the country will get computerised," Khurshid said while addressing the valedictory function of the bicet
The government has drawn a blueprint to develop the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines. Telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have shared a roadmap with prime minister Manmohan Singh to develop "petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years. "In hi
Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information and Infrastructure, said on Sunday at Ahmedabad that the Centre was spending Rs 1 lakh crore to bring in a "second-generation revolution" in governance. "Our governance system is obsolete and requires drastic change. If we do not change it, we cannot manage future delivery system for people," Pitroda sai
A portal for tracking missing children, called ‘Track Child’ is being developed by the women and child development (WCD) ministry. This will serve as a central database for all the missing children in the country. According to WCD secretary, Prem Narain the portal will help to coordinate activities of child homes, police departments and state governments across the country.
The Bhubaneswar municipal corporation is planning to form several Odisha Online Service Centres or OOSCs to provide public utility services for the people. There will be several phases to the project; first phase will see OOSCs come up at six locations namely, BMC office campus, Yatri Niwas (Cuttack Rad), Saheed Nagar Kalyan Mandap, Chandrasekharpur Kalyan Mandap, VSS Nagar Kalyan Mandap and co
The UIDAI has successfully conducted the proof of concept iris authentication study in Mysore district of Karnataka. The study presented the high accuracy levels (above 99.2%) which can be achieved by iris authentication. Keeping with UIDAI’s practice of conducting Proof of Concept (PoC) studies before launching any service, a PoC has been conducted to identify optimal authentication setu
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has requested the centre on Friday to issue a ban on US-based social networking sites, broadcasting "controversial" and "objectionable" films. "The chief minister spoke to the union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and sought a ban on such sites which lead to disruption of social harmony," an official rele
Security in cyber world, urban centres and along the borders will be discussed in detail at a two-day conference to be held in New Delhi from September 20. Incidents such as hacking of websites of several government organisations, misuse of internet and mobile services that had led to the exodus of north easterners from Bangalore and other cities will also be discussed.
Government is going to set up a surveillance agency which can forewarn about any malicious intent on the internet as a part of its strategy to deal with the misuse of social media. According to the minutes of a recent meeting chaired by national security advisor Shivshanker Menon, the government also decided to frame guidelines for telecom operators. This was decided in the light
The West Bengal government has confirmed spending a whooping Rs. 103-crore (US$18.5 million) contract for end-to-end ICT services to streamline the e-governance applications of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the state. The government there also plans to carry out biometric verification of workers in order to release payments faster. Workers wi
About 3,000 old computer systems will be replaced with new ones in Odisha as the state government there has decided to implement Odisha Secretariat Workflow Automation System (OSWAS) at the State Secretariat in 2009 at a cost of about Rs 22 crore. The state IT department in 2009 had initiated the e-governance project OSWAS. It had signed an agreement with software major Tata Consultanc
Software security services provider Norton today said consumer cybercrime has cost the country a whopping USD 8 billion or around Rs 42,000 crore in the past 12 months, impacting 42 million people. Releasing the findings of its annual cybercrime report, it is estimated that over 42 million people fell victim to cybercrime in the past 12 months in the country, incurring around USD
BSNL`s Chief General Manager P Raghavan and MTNL`s Technical Director Kuldeep Singh are among the top contenders to become TDSAT Member --a position that will fall vacant when Justice S B Sinha completes his term in November, sources said. Besides these two, the search-cum-selection committee has shortlisted MTNL`s Human Resource Director S P Pachauri, they said. S
The cut-throat predatory pricing of mobile call rates, which has weighed on the profitability of telecom companies, may end in 3-5 years, sector regulator TRAI Chairman has said. "Next 3 to 5 years, we are going to see industry margins are under pressure, companies going looking around for cash to tide them over liquidity crisis and three you are going to see consolidation,&
The national payments corporation of India (NPCI) on Monday said it will soon forge a tie-up with mobile wallet provider in Airtel Money, launched by the country`s largest telecom operator. Through the tie-up, which is expected to be sealed within two months, Airtel Money users can get integrated with the mainframe banking system, NPCI managing director and chief executive AP Hota said
Online accounting software company Reeleezee on Monday announced launch of its services in India. "With mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) becoming just as important as desktops, launch of our web-based accounting services will cater to the needs of SMEs in India," Wilko Storks, co-founder of Reeleezee told reporters. "The product (automated bookkeepi
To make mining transparent against the backdrop of rampant illegal activities, the mines ministry has proposed that all state governments including Goa display information on leases on their websites. The development comes in the wake of centre-appointed one man commission of inquiry -- justice M B Shah commission -- which went into the issue of illegal mining of iron ore and manganese
Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda will deliver a lecture on ‘smart governance with all’ at the second general assembly on world e-governance organisations of city governments and local governments at Barcelona in November this year. He has been invited by the mayor of Seoul Park Won-Soon and his Barcelona counterpart Xavier Trias for taking part in the assembly to be held
