Officials at the Home Ministry said the move will not only help maintain up-to-date data of citizenship certificates but also facilitate introducing National Identity Card in the due course.
“We will be in a position to give carbon copy of lost or stolen citizenship certificates issued from anywhere in the country once we complete computerization of these vital data,” said Under Secretary Pralhad Pokharel, who heads E-governance Section at the ministry.
According to the Act, every office should appoint IOs to provide and manage information for public dissemination.
A study conducted by National Vigilance Centre made public today at a convention on Right to Information organised by Freedom Forum here in the capital revealed that there are only 351 IOs for 9,000 public offices.
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“Broadband needs to be considered as basic national infrastructure as it will fundamentally reshape the world in the twenty-first century and change the way services are delivered — from the e-health to e-education to e-commerce,” said Sameer Sharma, senior adviser of International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific at a programme organised jointly by ITU and Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) here in the Valley.
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Speaking at the ICT Conference 2011 organized by Computer Association of Nepal (CAN) here on Wednesday, they also stressed on the need to implement various concepts like e-village, e-library and telemedicine with focus on rural sector to bridge existing digital divide.
Speaking at a panel discussion on ´Building e-Nepal: Prospects and Challenges´, lawmaker Rajendra Khetan encouraged entrepreneurs to work with competitiveness, quality and access in mind. He further suggested them not to look for government assistance on everything.
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