The Education Secretary of Medellin answered the citizens’ questions during an online chat,. He was chatting from the Pedro Octavio Amado School. The event was well prepared by the teachers and the director of the school. Everybody enjoyed the excellent facilities offered to chat with the community.
More than 40 people throughout the city participated in the chat. It was also the opportunity for the Education Secretary to spread the news about future events for the students and the whole com more...

Land registration offices throughout Andhra Pradesh now operate computerized counters to help citizens to complete registration requirements within an hour instead of several days, as was necessary under the earlier system. Antiquated procedures such as manual copying and indexing of documents, and storage in paper forms in ill-maintained backrooms have all been replaced. This case illustrates some of the key implementation issues faced by state and national governments in their efforts to use I more...

Back for the second year, the Government Technology Awards recognises best practice public sector technology programmes throughout Asia Pacific and the Gulf States!

Last year 214 government, education and healthcare organisations nominated themselves for the awards process, which concluded with a gala awards dinner in Phuket infront of 200 government officials and technology stakeholders.

“When you meet with government officials the dialogue is a very rich one, which reflects the priorities of the region, and the issues of the region,” said Ralph Young, Vice President, Public Sector, Microsoft, in interview at the recently concluded Government Leaders Forum in Jakarta. “Every region has its own themes and priorities, as well as an underlying constant: providing a more transparent and efficient government. ICT can help tremendously.”

This paper targets individuals and organizations engaged in providing ICT literacy education. It offers an analysis of ICT usage in Asia-Pacific countries and defines measures for promoting ICT literacy development in the region. The e-publication was released in 2008 by the UNESCO Office in Bangkok, Thailand.

A networking community for people who are professionally involved in the African ICT Industry. The Ning website for the network provides news, activities of members, blogs, and other resources.

It is hard to imaging the 'environmental impact' of e-commerce. After all, it doesn't emit any pollutants or use much energy and natural resources. It would also be hard to imagine it connected to the now familiar topics of sustainability such as climate change, and biodiversity and habitat losses. But their environmental impacts are there. And the impacts are not only ignificant, their nature and magnitude are such that the ways to resolve them are by no means evident or familiar to us.

It is hard to imaging the 'environmental impact' of e-commerce. After all, it doesn't emit any pollutants or use much energy and natural resources. It would also be hard to imagine it connected to the now familiar topics of sustainability such as climate change, and biodiversity and habitat losses. But their environmental impacts are there. And the impacts are not only significant, their nature and magnitude are such that the ways to resolve them are by no means evident or familiar to us.

Cyber Law in India is facing a tremendous pressure from the law enforcement requirements of the Indian society. Despite repeated cautions from leading cyber law experts of India the Government has not deem it fit to make suitable amendments in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000), the sole cyber law of India. This is resulting in an increased use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for committing cyber crimes and traditional crimes.

A guide for public officials and e-government practitioners in developing countries intending to design and implement web applications for the institutions.