Today, it's most evident in the 'e' initiatives that the Indian government - one of the late up takers of technology - is taking to improve its functional and operational efficiency. The government has realised over the past few years - seeing the corporate world- that IT is one such tool that will benefit not just the people of the country but also increase transparency within its operations.
E-governance has become a key word for the Government, which means the various offices, and ministries are ready to invest in procuring It products and solutions that will help them function better. This in reality translates into big business opportunity for the channel partners across the country.
To shape up the model of e-India, last week ICT organized three-day international conference and exhibition to create a unique platform for knowledge sharing in different domains of ICT for development and to facilitate a multi-stakeholder partnership as well as professional networking among governments, industry, academia and civil society organizations of different countries, including the host country- India. The objective was to bring together ICTD experts, practitioners, business leaders and stakeholders of the region onto one platform, through keynote addresses, paper presentations, thematic workshops, exhibition and in the process provide an excellent opportunity for participants to interact with a wide and diverse development community.
The speciality of this year's conference was the new theme – ‘Municipal IT,’ keeping in view the recommendations from past eINDIA events organised by CSDMS.
This time, eINDIA2008 delivers the growing need for a multi-stakeholder participation of seven overlapping domains of ICT4D, namely - eGov, digital Learning, eHealth, mServe, Telecentre Forum, eAgriculture, and Municipal IT, which addressed under a single knowledge-sharing platform, allowing people and organisations working in apparently isolated domains of ICTD, to engage themselves in mutual experience sharing and understanding of convergent issues in their individual pursuit for development. The eINDIA platform has brought together experts not only from India and Asia, but also from other continents, including Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America . The cross-country sharing of experiences and regional specificities has always ensured that new and possible collaborations are discussed and forged.
The conference also displayed latest e-solutions, services, initiatives and case studies from across India and beyond.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Pragya Gupta
Quelle/Source: itVARnews, 05.08.2008
