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The service will enable customers to obtain details of their bill payment, recharge their lines, or receive a copy of paid balance via email.

The move comes as part of VIVA Bahrain's desire to increase the available payment channels and promote postpaid billing services, including mobile phones, broadband and the Internet.

Gorachand Banerjee runs a common service centre in Kapasaria village in Chanditala 2 block, 20 km away from Kolkata.

Banerjee, who has studied till class X, is today a village level entrepreneur under the common service centre scheme of the Government of India.

A "smart city" in Thailand supported by a single communications network supports kiosks, outdoor Wi-Fi, street lighting, parking and more, according to a press release.

The 5G Open RAN Smart City in Ban Chang, Thailand is able to support use cases across industrial robots, factory automation, remote telemedicine, aviation, logistics and agriculture.

The initiative, which has already been trialled in the United States, is being introduced in a bid to cut costs. But union bosses have warned that it could lead to an increase in offending.

The machines will reduce face-to-face contact between offenders and probation staff, with criminals answering a series of questions posed automatically on a screen. The devices are also equipped with fingerprint readers.

Unions are furious with government plans that will see offenders released from prison and those serving community sentences reporting to electronic kiosks rather than probation officers.

They are warning that the move, which will be introduced in a pilot scheme to be run in two London boroughs, Bexley and Bromley, and will be expanded across the capital if successful, could put the public at greater risk and is designed to cut staff numbers. But the government has defended the scheme, which will run from June until the end of the year, saying it will let probation officers spend more time with offenders.

The initiative, which is already being used in the United States, will reduce face-to-face contact between offenders and probation staff, with freed prisoners and those on community orders answering questions automatically posed by a machine.

The probation union Napo warned the scheme would damage public confidence in the supervision of offenders, but probation bosses said it could reduce bureaucracy and help staff make the best use of their time.

More than £45,000 is being spent on introducing new “digital hubs” in Wrexham city centre.

The 65-inch touch-screens are set to be installed on the High Street and Lord Street as part of improvements to the main shopping area.

The screens will offer visitors access to the VZTA Wrexham App, maps and event information to help promote what’s going on in the city centre.

In Taiwan, Family Mart, the country’s second-largest convenience store chain, recently launched a new service that allows Taiwanese nationals to submit applications for extending their travel documents to enter China. With large numbers of Taiwanese visiting China in recent years, Family Mart has jumped in to take advantage of this lucrative business opportunity. Family Mart’s service at NT $499 (US$17.2) per application is cheaper and more convenient than applying directly to a travel agency which costs between NT $500 - NT $600.

While you might be wondering what, other than being sympathetic, we can do from across the world, a group of students at The Pennsylvania State University has jumped to the challenge to make a difference. These students have enrolled in classes that will allow them to go above and beyond what is imagined, much less expected, of young adults.

Each panchayat will have its own email address and more than 13,000 of them will be hosted on the state-owned data centre.

As part of the MoU, HP intends to transform an existing rural health center in Aliyabad, located 45 kilometers from Hyderabad, into an eHealth center by deploying a fully integrated cloud technology solution. The solution will connect the medical equipment deployed at the eHealth center with an eHealth cloud and collect basic patient health data to enable better medical diagnosis. The eHealth Center is expected to give close to 20,000 people across 10 villages an opportunity to receive quality diagnosis and treatment from doctors seated at a telemedicine studio in SHARE INDIA - MediCiti Hospital at Ghanpur Village in Medchal Mandal, Ranga Reddy District of Andhra Pradesh.

The initiative will be part of the “Hospital Kiosks” project launched by the state government’s Information Kerala Mission (IKM) back in 2005. The Hospital Kiosks have quickly become popular with the government saying that over 60 percent of new births are registered online.

1 Stop Aksh, the e-governance arm of Aksh Optifibre Limited [BSE: 532351 | NSE: AKSHOPTFBR] and e-Mitra, a leading government initiative in Rajasthan for connecting villages through IT infrastructure, today announced that it has launched its first e-Health service at its kiosks where a citizen can ask a doctor about his or her health issues.

A rural citizen can walk-in into any e-Mitra kiosk and can get answers to his questions from doctors all over the world by making a nominal payment.

To ramp up testing for Covid-19, 12 walk-in sample collection kiosks have been erected across the state for random population-based screening. They have been set up by the Goa government with assistance from Wipro GE Healthcare as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) and have begun operations at industrial estates in Verna and Mapusa, and at border locations in Dodamarg, Keri and Patradevi.

Health minister Vishwajit Rane said the smart kiosks have been introduced to ensure the safety of both, healthcare staff and other citizens. “They will go a long way in controlling the spread of of Covid-19 in Goa,” he said.

Patients were seen walking inside a shipment container in Dhanas Colony on Monday. This container was no ordinary box, it was a health kiosk equipped with all basic diagnostic tools, ranging from ECG and basic blood tests to spirometry (lung test) and liver-function test.

The kiosk, inaugurated by administrator V P Singh Badnore, has been linked with the PGIMER and Government Multi-specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16. Apart from collecting data vital to health care in the UT, the health kiosk is going to lessen the burdoen on the OPD at PGIMER. The kiosk will also provide all the data it collects to the premier health institute in Sector 12.

New Delhi Municipal Council on Friday launched its first police assistance kiosk, under the smart city project, near AIIMS. People can file e-FIRs at these kiosks, even without the help of police personnel. These hi-tech kiosks would remain open to the public 24x7 and it would be manned by a dedicated lady police officer, along with other supporting staff.

NDMC chairman Naresh Kumar said the idea behind the the kiosk was to provide police-related services at a single point, saving vital time of the public.

RMC officials expect that within one year, about five per cent of tax-payers will switch over to internet and kiosk-based payment modes in the city. The kiosk works like an ATM, where residents can come and pay their taxes at any time in the day without standing in lines.

Gurugram has become the first city in India to deploy a QR code-based kiosk system for paying traffic challans, marking a milestone in the country's digital governance and smart city efforts, according to a report by The 420.

Developed jointly by the Gurugram Police and the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority under a corporate social responsibility initiative, the kiosk enables motorists to check and pay fines by entering their vehicle number and scanning a QR code for instant digital transactions.

The device could be deployed in a variety of places: in a corporate for employees` use, at a retail store, old age homes or even in a gated community, said ehealth Access Pvt Ltd, the company focused on developing a healthcare eco system through advanced telemedicine technology, which launched it.

The Kiosk enables patient-doctor consultation in a secure environment and they can communicate through phone, web cams, video conferencing, messaging or chat.

Smart City project’s special purpose vehicle — Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited (NSSCDCL) — has come up with an innovative concept to install smart kiosks.

Denied permission by the police department to set these up at police stations, (NSSCDCL) will now install the kiosks at 40 smart bus stops being developed across the city.