IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Interacting with the students of Symbiosis university here, Ansari asked them to "understand and take the concept of e-governance to the people".

Through this mission, the Government is looking to take on a learner-centric approach in delivering education by facilitating the provision of infrastructure that will connect the schools to internet at minimum 10 mbps.

The capacity building scheme, approved Thursday by the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, will provide technical and professional help to develop specialised e-governance skills to policy and decision making bodies in all the states and union territories.

IT@School, which is the technology arm of the general education department of the Kerala government, was set up for empowering schools with latest information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled education, besides implementing e-governance within the education department.

The project has recently received 'Honorable Mention' in Stockholm Challenge Award-2010 and has been considered the world's biggest ICT deployment in education using free software.

TAPMI is the only B-School to start the one of its kind course in India. The programme is being offered by TAPMI in collaboration with National Institute for Smart Government [NISG], Hyderabad with support from the Department of Information Technology Ministry of Communications & IT, and Government of India. TAPMI is the first management institute in the country to be selected to conduct a post graduate e-governance programme for executives in collaboration with NISG.

“Our MoU with CSI will help in enhancing the outreach of C-DAC to the furthest parts of country,” says Rajan T Joseph, director general, C-DAC.

A Bench of Justices Mukundakam Sharma and A R Dave passed the ruling while dismissing a Civil Judge aspirant Vijendra Kumar Verma's plea challenging the decision of Uttarkhand Government to reject his candidature after he failed to display basic computer knowledge.

“If Goa has to be at par with other IT cities like Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, then we need to expedite certain things,” Information Technology (IT) Chairman Subhash Shirodkar said at the launch of ‘e-SMS Goa Mobile Governance’ and IT Knowledge Centres on Tuesday evening.

He said that over 600 persons have taken admission in the Info Tech Corporation of Goa Ltd’s (ITG) 40 IT knowledge centres across the state.

The Advanced Centre of Informatics and Innovative Learning (ACIIL), to be established as a hub institute on the lines of National Education Grid, will work as an autonomous inter-institutional centre of excellence under Open University Act and will be governed by the UGC.

Addressing a press conference this afternoon, Mr Narvekar said that at the moment the applicants to various government jobs have been producing certificates from various private institutes, which are accepted by the government in absence of there being no norms and recognised institutions.

About 2,000 police officers in Malappuram district will get training in the first phase of the programme, being conducted here in association with Akshaya.

The pilot phase of training will cover 38,000 Government employees working in different departments in Malappuram district.

In his welcome address, Dr. Saji Gopinath - Director, TAPMI welcomed the guests and extended his whole-hearted support in terms of provision of campus facilities to participants. The introduction to the programme was given by Prof Harish P Iyer - Co-ordinator eGPX. He spoke of the journey of eGPX, the commitment of TAPMI towards it and also the passion of the participants towards the eGPX programme. According to him, the important factor in selection of candidates was their commitment to a worthy cause. Furthermore, he stated that it was not just career progress or financial growth that inspired participants, but their passion towards learning about ICT enabled eGovernance.

IT Kerala officials said this was the first time in the country that a state government had taken the initiative to promote use of FOSS in e-governance and introduced a course to develop FOSS-skilled personnel.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative by any state government in the country to promote a career in e-Governance, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K) and the Institute of Management in Government (IMG) have joined hands to launch of a Post Graduate Diploma course in e-Governance.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, approving the Mission submitted by the Human Resource Development Ministry as a Centrally-sponsored scheme, approved an amount of Rs 46.12 billion during the 11th Five Year Plan. There is a budget provision of Rs 5.02 billion during the current financial year 2008-09.

Secretary Higher Education Ashish Upadhyaya, Director General of the Academy Dr Sandeep Khanna, Director MK Varshney, trainee officers of Revenue, Animal Husbandry and Agriculture departments were also present at the seminar.

Students’ classroom attendance will be taken through the biometric system, smart cards will generate report cards and a tracking system will keep parents in the know-how of their children.

All this and many such features will be introduced, if the feasibility study throws up a positive result.

"We are putting a Rs 300 crore proposal for the academy by end of this month before the state government," said Vivek Sawant, managing director of the MKCL, which is a company promoted by the state government to ensure convergence of traditional classroom-based learning and web-based collaborative e-learning. The MKCL is celebrating the 10th year of its inception this year.

Speaking at the closing programme of a two-day workshop on e-NGO at Working Women’s Hostel Kohima, Sukhalu said poor connectivity of digital technology faced by people in remote areas of the state would be dealt with.