The Open Training Platform (OTP) is a UNESCO-powered hub providing free and open learning for development. It is a Flagship Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).

At present, OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNU, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners and agencies, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.

Four new LIRNE studies provide feedback to regulators across different categories of information provision. These regional assessments of national telecom regulatory authority websites in Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, Asia and Africa, seek to illuminate best practices for using NRA websites as vehicles to provide information about the sector to the full range of stakeholders. National regulatory authorities have a key role to play as information society drivers and facilitators more...

The Government Gateway is an important part of delivering joined-up government. It enables citizens and businesses to communicate and make secure, online transactions with many parts of government from a single point of entry. The Gateway makes e-government a reality: modernising the way that we do business within government. It also allows citizens and businesses to seamlessly interact with government departments and bodies through a variety of diverse channels, services and applications softwa more...

The purpose of the South African Services website is to provide a single source of information about services offered by the South African government. The objective is to reduce the disparity that exists between the empowered and the disempowered, the first and second economies. The website is a critical intervention aimed at ensuring that citizens will be able to interact with government.

The vision is that by the end of 2012, Bihar becomes one of the top five e-Governed, IT-enabled, e-Literate States in the Country and is regarded as a preferred destination for IT businesses and is a major supplier of skilled IT manpower.

Dubai eGovernment showcased its key achievements at the International Telecommunications Union Regional Symposium on eGovernment and Internet Protocol (IP) that was held for the first time in Dubai from November 22 to 25, 2004.

Dubai eGovernment showcased its key achievements at the International Telecommunications Union Regional Symposium on eGovernment and Internet Protocol (IP) that was held for the first time in Dubai from November 22 to 25, 2004.

Dubai eGovernment showcased its key achievements at the International Telecommunications Union Regional Symposium on eGovernment and Internet Protocol (IP) that was held for the first time in Dubai from November 22 to 25, 2004.

A series of recent meetings have brought together in Washington, DC and Los Angeles a group of Swiss and American officials to discuss the topic of e-voting. The meetings, involving representatives of governmental and academic communities from both countries, were part of ThinkSwiss, a US-wide program that was already described on this blog.

During a first meeting at the Committee of House Administration -- the committee of the US House of representatives in charge of overseeing the federal more...

About a year after the Dutch government began seriously worrying about the integrity of e-voting machines, they've literally pulled the plug on the venture. The biggest flaw was the lack of a paper trail according to a special committee which reported its finding this morning. As such, Nederlanders will return to the "red pencil method" in upcoming elections until an automated paper-counting solution can be deployed... and then hacked.