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The global market information group Taylor Nelson Sofres plc or TNS has come out with its third Government Online Study - GO Study 2003 - which is a marketing information report that provides global and national benchmarks relating to citizen uptake of government services online.

According to the new research, while worldwide growth in public use of e-government saw a slump in year-to-date November 2003 compared to 2002, India displayed an optimistic appetite.

A UN e-government report has embarrassed the Indian Government into spending more on technology

The Indian Government is to spend the equivalent of £500m on e-government over the next five years in response to an embarrassing results in a UN benchmarking report.

Read more: India: Delhi digs deep

Local technology entrepreneurs or technopreneurs, participants of ICT projects, are set for Incredible India 2003 Trade and Investment Exhibition at Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur from December 2 until 6.

They said that it was important for them to attend for a few tips since the event, run by Andhra Pradesh state of India, will showcase its highly successful e-governance technology.

The government has allocated Rs 5,000 crore for its e-governance projects for the next five years.

Speaking at a Confederation of Indian Industry session on Digital Maharashtra, department of information technology additional secretary S Lakshminarayanan quoted from the latest UNDP report on the e-government index for 133 countries which gave India 1.29 points on a scale of 0-4.

The Andhra Pradesh state will showcase its highly successful e-governance technology at the Incredible India 2003 Trade and Investment Exhibition at the Putra World Trade Centre here from Dec 2 to 6.

The state's Information Technology and Communications Department joint-director (Promotion) Capt C. K. Veeresh said the e-governance service has been well-received by the people.