Cyber Quiz: Article Review-17: Bhattacharjee, Jay (2005): Reading
English August: Flatulent Babus Need To Be Accountable, The Times of
India, New Delhi, February 11, Friday, p-18, edit page.
_____________________________________________________________________
In response to a civil servant's call for inculcating "a set
of core values," Bhattacharjee* says that that the Indian civil
servants do have a "deeply ingrained set of core values, namely,
self-aggrandisement, turf protection, non-accountability and a quasi-
divine right to rule over hapless citizens." He, therefore
suggests safeguards "like accountability, performance monitoring,
compensation to linked to efficiency and citizen's redress against
bureaucratic malfunctioning."
This is a familiar diatribe against the civil servants. The author
even challenges some protection civil servants have against
anonymous, false or frivolous complaints and many careers are known
to have been ruined on this account alone. The suggestions made by
the author are also in place. However, the writer is right in saying
that the value of "public service" among the civil servants is
missing. The question to be asked then is: "What can be done to
improve the public service delivery for which the public has a very
poor experience, often bordering on harassment? The answer may thus
lie in addressing the question of public service delivery and e-
government can be one promising way.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 12, 2005.
_____________________________________________________________________
*Bhattacharjee, Jay (2005): Reading English August: Flatulent Babus
Need To Be Accountable, The Times of India, New Delhi, February 11,
Friday, p-18, edit page,
http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?
Daily=CAP(accessed: February 12, 2005).
Cyber Quiz: The List-64: Top Ten Advertisers in India 2004 (Press+TV)
_____________________________________________________________________
1. Hindustan Lever (517)
2. Maruti Udyog (195)
3. Samsung India (150)
4. Proctor & Gamble (145)
5. Bajaj Auto (135)
6. LG Electronics (135)
7. Paras Pharmaceuticals (112)
8. Tata Motors (105)
9. Hero Honda Motors (97)
10.TVS Motor Company (96)
_____________________________________________________________________
Note: Figures in parentheses indicate estimates based on indicative
market costs in Rupees crore (1 crore= 10 million). (Source: Lintas
Media Estimates)
Source: Bhushan, Ratna (2005): HLL, Maruti hog the advertising
limelight, The Times of India, New Delhi, Times Business, February
11, Friday, p-19, at
http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?
Daily=CAP (accessed: February 12, 2005)
Dr D.C.Misra
February 12, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Editorial - 4: Task Force on E-Governance:
Hyphenating "E" with "Governance:" There are Serious
Issues on Both Sides of Hyphen
Ravichandran informs us, and thanks to him as no one else has
informed us, that a task force to speed up e-governance in states has
been set up by Government of India on February 7, 2005. According to
him, "In order to re-engineer the government processes and to
develop state-wide solution framework options to enhance the
interoperability among state governments, the Department of
Administrative Reforms & Pensions and Grievances (DAR&PG) and
Department of Information Technology (DIT) together set-up a
taskforce for e-governance process engineering and scaleable
solutions framework on Monday."
He further states that: "Leading IT majors, management
institutions and consultancy majors like the Indian Institute of
Management, Calcutta, (IIM-C); Oracle; Hewlett Packard;
PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Intel; Redhat and Liqvid have been selected
as the members of the taskforce."
Ravichandran further informs us that a steering committee too has
been set up. In his words: "The steering committee of the
taskforce consists of the director of DAR&PG, DIT and one faculty
member of IIM-C and one representative from Oracle-HP e-governance
Centre of Excellence, according to Oracle."
The issue is of very considerable importance to us. The issues facing
e-governance in India require to be addressed urgently and that too
from different perspectives if the potential of e-governance in India
is proposed to be realized for the benefit of the citizens.
Ravichandran reports:
"In a communication, Oracle said that the taskforce will seek to
complete the process re-engineering done by the Centre, state and
local governments and also suggest approaches, tools and methodology
for re-engineering of government processes. In addition, the
taskforce will develop state-wide solution framework tools that
enhance interoperability while allowing governments to start
encompassing the following:
State-wide government call centre network;
• Kiosk-based delivery of government services or alternative
front-end facilitation centres;
• Data-centric view of transactions with citizens seamlessly
integrating multiple government agency and stakeholder roles and
functions;
• Exploring alternative delivery channels leveraging on wireless
and emerging m-governance capabilities; and
• Emergency response and disaster management information system.
According to Oracle, the taskforce will also be responsible for
development of a course in cyber law which will address issues of IP,
licences, re-purposing, re-use of code and the IT Act 2000. It will
also create a digital repository of guidelines for outsourcing and
comparative analysis of the various approaches."
Apparently a tall order has been placed on the task force. Different
issues mentioned in the above report not only deserve deliberation
but expertise, as there are many "frontier" areas like cyber
law where there is no benefit of precedence. Also, the field is
fraught with technical issues like inter-operability and open versus
proprietary offerings. Moreover, hyphenating "e" with
"governance" has serious issues on both sides of the hyphen,
that is, within "e" domain as well as in the domain of
"governance" which require to be sorted out. Above all,
citizen's perspective needs to be incorporated in the task force.
This should not be done by proxy but by providing direct
representation of citizens on the task force. After all, e-governance
is for the citizens. Is it not?
Dr D.C.Misra
February 11, 2005
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*Ravichandran, R., (2005); Taskforce set up to speed up e-governance
in states, The Financial Express, February 8, Tuesday, Net edition,
available http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?
content_id=81935 (accessed: February 11, 2005) (Dateline: Hyderabad,
February 7, 2005).
Cyber Quiz: List-63: Top Ten Partners in India's Trade 2004
____________________________________________________________________________
1. United States (U.S.) (7.3)
2. China (6.3)
4. United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) (3.89)
5. Belgium (2.69)
6. United Kingdom (U.K.) (2.6)
7. Germany (2.3)
8. Singapore (2.27)
9. Switzerland (2.1)
10.South Korea (1.5)
_____________________________________________________________________________
Note: Figures in $ billion for April-August 2004.
(Source: China to be India's trade partner No.1, Times of India, New Delhi,
February 10, 2005, Thursday, p-1, at
http://epaperarchive.timesofindia.com/Archive/skins/pastissues/navigator.asp?AW=\
1108097107171, accessed: February 11, 2005).
Dr D.C.Misra
February 11, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Forthcoming Event-26: Brainstorming Meet on E-Governance
on February 14, 2005 from 10 a.m. to 2-30 p.m. at the Centre for the
Study of Law and Governance (CSLG), Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), New Delhi
The above meet will be held in the Conference Hall of the Centre. The
theme of the meet is; "E-Governance: Cementing Communities and
Dispersing Services." For details, including invitation to
participate in the meet, kindly contact Dr Amita Singh, Associate
Professor.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 11, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: List-62: Top Ten Cities by Occupancy Cost, January 2005
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1 London (West End), England (191.60)
2 London (City), England (125.80)
3 Tokyo (Inner Central), Japan (124.36)
4 Tokyo (Outer Central), Japan (119.51)
5 Paris, France (96.36)
6 Birmingham, England (78.38)
7 Manchester, England (75.00)
8 Dublin, Ireland (74.74)
9 Edinburgh, Scotland (71.12)
10 Moscow, Russia (69.95)
______________________________________________________________________
Note:
1. Figures in parentheses indicate occupation cost in US$/SF/annum,
the basis for ranking.
2. Mumbai (52.74) ranks 23rd and New Delhi (40.72) ranks 33, ahead of
New York (DT Manhattan) (37.80) (rank 39) in Global 50 Index.
(Source: Global 50 Index, in CBRE (C B Richard Ellis) (2005)
(http://www.cbre.com): Global Market Rents, January, Office Rents and
Occupancy Costs Worldwide, p-3, http://tinyurl.com/5khap).
Dr D.C.Misra
February 11, 2005
Cyber Quiz: List-61: Top Seven SAARC Countries with Lowest Cellular
Tariff
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1.India (3-4)
2.Bangladesh (6.5)
3.Nepal (6.5)
4.Pakistan (8.4)
5.Sri Lanka (11.0)
6.Bhutan (11.4)
7.Maldives (14.4)
____________________________________________________________________
Note:
1.Figures in parentheses indicate per minute cellular tariff in US
cents.
2.SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation),
established in 1985, has seven countries as its members as given in
the above Table. It has a secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Source: (For Table only): Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
Press Release No. 14/2005 dated February 9, 2005 available:
http://www.trai.gov.in/pr9feb05.htm (accessed: February 10, 2005).
Dr D.C.Misra
February 11, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: Occasional Paper Review -17: Okot-Uma, Rogers W'O
(2004): The Roadmap to eGovernance Implementation: Selected
Perspectives
As the title of the paper* indicates, it provides selected
perspectives on a roadmap to eGovernance suggested by the author
based on his experiences in the Commonwealth member countries. He
lists 4 milestones: (i) Stakeholder Statement of Requirements –
the Expectations, (ii) Baseline Assessment: An assessment of the
`status quo', of all pertinent `entities' and
processes, (iii) Blue Print for eGovernance: An eGovernance
MasterPlan (eGMP)– Aggregation Scenarios, with Strategic Options
and an Action plan, essentially arising from the discrepancies
between the Expectations and the Baseline Assessment, and (iv)
Implementation: One mode of approach to eGovernance implementation is
its treatment as a combined Project Management Process and a Change
Management Process for eGovernance (pp 1-2).
After describing the technical aspects of creating national
information infrastructure (NII)within the framework of global
information infrastructure (GII), Okat-Uma also presents a taxonomy
of levels of evolution of eGovernance and implications for
integration of Government services thus: (i) Level 0: Internalising,
(ii) Level 1: Informing, (iii) Level 2: Interacting, (iv) Level 3:
Transacting, (v) Level 4: Integrating, and (vi) Level 5: Transforming
(pp 15-16), finally providing a Blueprint for eGovernance: A National
eGovernance Masterplan ( eGMP). The author provides interesting
perspectives on eGovernance. It is a useful reading for any one
interested in eGovernance.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 10, 2005
______________________________________________________________________
*Okot-Uma, Rogers W'O (2004): The Roadmap to eGovernance
Implementation:Selected Perspectives, Presented at a Commonwealth
Regional Pacific Workshop on Law and Technology, 1 – 5 November
2004, Wellington, New Zealand, 33 pp, available:
http://www.rileyis.com/publications/research_papers/guest/Roadmap2eGov
.pdf (accessed: February 10, 2005)
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch- 65: The Information Society Project (ISP)
at Yale Law School
The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School "is an
intellectual center for the study of a new age in which
telecommunications and intellectual property are central determinants
of the structure of society, the development of human culture and
democratic legitimacy." The project has three theoretical goals: (i)
promoting democratic goals, (ii) creating a new social theory for the
informaion age, and (iii) studying the role of law and legal
regulation in a technology-driven world. Check the website for
details at:
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/about.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 10, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-64: eoPortal: Earth Observation Portal
The Earth Observation Portal (eoPortal) "aims to open the door to
the world of Earth Observation resources." Check it at:
http://www.eoportal.org/about.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 10, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-62: Multi-University School of the Internet
(SOI) Asia Project, Japan
The website states: " In 1997, the WIDE Project launched the SOI
(School of Internet) Project in order to explore what the new higher
education based on the Internet should be. Since then, with sights
set on the establishment of environments where anyone in the world
who has a will to study will be able to enjoy hi-quality university-
level education "anytime and anywhere", the SOI project has been
bringing into reality university-level education on the Internet,
while conducting research activities through field experiments."
Check it at
http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp/soi-asia/doc/soiasia-e-20021206.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 9, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: Article Review-8: Mukherjee, Anuradha, TNN (2005):
Property tax tops MCD online grievance redressal list, The Times of
India, New Delhi, February 8, Tuesday, p-4.
______________________________________________________________________
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which looks after the civic
government of the national capital territotory of Delhi (NCTD),
covering important aspects of a citizen's life like primary
education, public health, sanitation, community services, etc. has
recently set up an online public grievance redressal system (PGRS)at
http://complaints.mcdonline.gov.in/.
Mukherjee* reports, quoting MCD sources, that 220 people have already
registerd their complaints online. This, she says, despite the fact
that the corporation is yet to formally launch the system and
publicise it among people. According to her the top three grievances
of citizens pertain to 1. Property tax (17 percent), 2. Sanitation
(13 percent) and 3. Engineering Department (12.2 percent). Once the
PGRS is formally launched and publicised, a large number of
grievances are likely to be filed online, some genuine, some not so,
some frivolous and some no doubt also making valuable suggestions or
providing valuable feedback too.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) must be conratulated for
taking this timely initiative in e-governance, particularly in G2C
and C2G (government-to-citizens and citizens-to-government)domains
where the governance matters most to citizens. The services of the
Bangalore-based eGovernments Foundation, a non-governmental
organisation (NGO), which set up the PGRS free-of-cost also need to
be appreciated.
However, important issues arise which desrve closer look. First,how
to cope with an avlanche of online grievances with a built-in
tracking system? Secondly, how to sift the genuine grievances of the
citizens from the frivolous or dilatory grievances? Thirdly, how to
set up a grievance redressal system for the citizens who despite
paying heavy taxes do not get any commensurate service from the civic
bodies in return? Lastly, which is better from the administrative
point of view: online grievance redressal or offline grievance
redressal? Some studies are urgently called for to aid and advise the
MCD in this initiative in e-governance which will prove equally
useful to other public-dealing institutions.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 8, 2005.
______________________________________________________________________
*Mukherjee, Anuradha, TNN (2005): Property tax tops MCD online
grievance redressal list, The Times of India, New Delhi, February 8,
Tuesday, p-4, available (registration required)
http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?
Daily=CAP
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-62: ENSEMBLES project on "Global Change
and Ecosystems"
The European Commission-funded 5 year project (2004-2009) ENSEMBLES
project on "Global Change and Ecosystems, " aims to, among other
things, "Develop an ensemble prediction system for climate change
based on the principal state-of-the-art, high resolution, global and
regional Earth System models developed in Europe, validated against
quality controlled, high resolution gridded datasets for Europe, to
produce for the first time, an objective probabilistic estimate of
uncertainty in future climate at the seasonal to decadal and longer
timescales.' Check it at
http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com/index.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 8, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Open Source-1: Think Cycle
An open source website for hardware design, ThinkCycle is "an
academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed
collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities
and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open-
source design innovation, with ongoing collaboration among
individuals, communities and organizations around the world."
Check it at
http://www.thinkcycle.org/about
Dr D.C. .Misra
February 7, 2005.
<UNDP-APDIP announcing major regional survey on Internet governance
priorities: all stakeholder groups encouraged to participate, online
questionnaire available in twelve languages: take a few minutes to register
your views and support the survey outreach>
Background and objectives
UNDP-APDIP, in cooperation with UNESCAP and APNIC, is conducting a major
survey on Internet policy issues in the entire Asia-Pacific region. The
survey intends to reach out to all stakeholder groups, public and private
sector, Internet developers and industry, as well as civil society and
normal Internet users. This will provide a good overview of what the
priorities in Internet policy are in your own countries, and how they vary
for different stakeholders and across countries. The results of the survey
will be conveyed to the UN Working Group on Internet Governance and will
also help us at UNDP-APDIP to focus our own research and capacity building
activities in Internet governance on priority topics.
How to participate
The survey can be completed online in a few minutes and will be open for
three weeks until February 26. Maximum outreach is key to the success of
this effort, so we have made the online questionnaire available in twelve
major languages of the region.
You can access the English version at http://survey.igov.apdip.net , which
also contains links to all other languages. Alternatively you can go
directly to one of other language versions at the links below.
How to make this survey a success
In order to get the word out and reach all stakeholder groups in all
countries, we very much depend on local partners. May we ask for your help
in this regard? It would be immensely valuable, if you could make your
colleagues/members aware of this survey and encourage them to participate.
So please do forward this announcement widely.
Please note
The survey is for residents of the Asia-Pacific region only. Non-English
language versions of the questionnaire require language support for the
respective character sets to be installed on your computer system.
Links to other languages
Chinese
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-zh
Farsi
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-fa
Indonesian
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-id
Japanese
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-ja
Khmer
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-km
Korean
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-ko
Lao
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-lo
Mongolian
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-mn
Pashto
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-ps
Thai
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-th
Vietnamese
http://survey.igov.apdip.net/index_html-vi
Thank you very much for your help.
Warmest regards,
Kapil Chawla
ORDIG(Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance)
UNDP-APDIP,
On secondment from APNIC,
Wisma UN, Block C,
Kompleks Pejabat Damansara,
Jalan Dungun,
Damansara Heights,
50490 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: +603 2095-9122
Fax: +603 2093-9740
URL: igov.apdip.net
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Dear D.C.M.
I am interested in knowledge generally and "Systems" in particular. I
have been in "systems" right thru my career of over 40 years.
Your "Quiz" initiative in "TechRepublic" is great.
I'll follow your posts.
Jamshed F. Mehta, Mumbai.
Moderator's Comments
Welcome to Cyber Quiz forum, Jamshed. I am glad you like the fare offered on the
Cyber Quiz forum. We would look forward to your posts.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 7, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-61: Spamhaus
Spamhaus, founded in 1998 and based in United Kingdom, is an
international non-profit organization run by 18 dedicated
volunteers "whose mission is to track the Internet's Spam Gangs,
to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet
networks, to work with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and
pursue spammers worldwide, and to lobby governments for effective
anti-spam legislation." Check it at
http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/index.html
Dr D.C. Misra
February 6, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-60: ERPANET
Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPANET), a
European Commission funded project, "aims to establish an
expandable and self-sustaining European Initiative, which will serve
as a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base in the area of
preservation of cultural heritage and scientific digital
objects." Check for details:
http://www.erpanet.org/about.php
Dr D.C.Misra
February 5, 2005
Cyber Quiz: List-60: Top Ten Pongs 2005
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1.Smoke(25)
2.Animals(21)
3.Cooking(17)
4.Waste bins(12)
5.Damp(6)
6.Toilets(4)
7.Drains(3)
8.Traffic fumes(2.5)
9.Wet paint/turps
10.Body Odour(BO)(1)
______________________________________________________________________
Note:Figures in parentheses indicate the percentage of vote polled;
n=2,000 Britons; Report conductor: Air Space Solutions.
Source: Samson, Pete (2005): Stale cigs are worst pongs ever,
Mirror.co.uk, February 1, available
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15139031&method=full&
siteid=50143&headline=stale-cigs-are-worst-pong-ever-name_page.html
(accessed: February 5, 2005).
Dr D.C.Misra
February 5, 2005
Cyber Quiz: News-14: Web inventor voted 2004 greatest Brit
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented and then gave away the World
Wide Web, has been picked as epitomising the Greatest of Britishness,
according to a report by Reuters. The report adds: "His selfless
act added to modesty and ingenuity were deemed by a panel of judges
to make Berners-Lee the Greatest Briton of 2004."
"He chose not to commercially exploit his invention. He gave it away
almost wilfully," historian and panel member David Starkey told
Reuters on Thursday. "If he had fully exploited it, he would make
Bill Gates look like a pauper today." Check the source* for details.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 5, 2005
_____________________________________________________________________
* Lovell, Jeremy (2005): Web inventor voted 2004 greatest Brit,
Reuters, London, January 27,
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050127/325/fb8xn.html (accessed: February 5,
2005).
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-59: Edelman Annual Trust Barometer
The Edelman Annual Trust Barometer "tracks the attitudes of 1500
opinion leaders around the world-- which institutions, companies,
sources of information they trust, what drives that trust the
credibility of institutions, sources of information and the drivers
of trust." Opinion leaders are defined "as being between
35-64 years, college educated with a household income of more than
$75,000 or equivalent and report a significant interest and
engagement in the media, economic and policy affairs."
"Global opinion leaders' institutions (business, government,
media) and figures of authority (CEOs, heads of state) is being
supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes
<colleagues>,<friends and family>, <a person like yourself>
as well as independent experts such as doctors and academics,"
according to the sixth annual Edelman Trust Barometer
(January 24, 2005, New York). Check it at
http://www.edelman.com/
Dr D.C.Misra
February 4, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Forthcoming Event-25: INDIASOFT 2005, March 21-22, 2005,
Chennai Trade Center, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Held annually since 2001, INDIASOFT 2005, International IT Exhibition
and Conferences, "is going to be held at Chennai where more than
300 delegates from across the world are expected. They will explore
outsourcing business, systems, synergies etc., and establish
partnerships with Indian companies." It is organized by
Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC), New
Delhi. Check it at
http://indiasoft2005.com/index.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 4, 2005
Awards for Exemplary Implementation of e-Governance Initiatives
Year 2004
______________________________________________________________________
1.Professional excellence for Process Re-Engineering - New Entrants
_____________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: E-Sampark,Department of Information Technology,Chandigarh
Administration
Silver Icon: Tax Information Network, Income Tax Department, Deptt.
of Revenue,Min of Finance,GOI
Bronze Icon: Citizen facilitation centre Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal
Corporation, Maharashtra
______________________________________________________________________
2. Professional excellence for Process Re-Engineering - Professional
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Haryana Board of School Education,Bhiwani
Silver Icon: REFNIC:Reference Monitoring System, Government of
Himachal Pradesh
Bronze Icon: Saathi Registration & Stamps,Rajasthan
_____________________________________________________________________
3. Exemplary Leadership and ICT Achievement of the year -New Entrants
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT, Delhi
Golden Icon: KAVERI Karnataka Valuation and E-registration Karnataka
Golden Bronze: Jawahar Knowledge Centres IT & Communication
Department, Govt.of Andhra Pradesh
______________________________________________________________________
4. Exemplary Leadership and ICT Achievement of the year -Professional
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: VAT- MAC,Government of Haryana
Silver Icon: Save the Girl Child Datamation Foundation
Bronze Icon: DGSD e-tendering DGSD, M/o Commerce
______________________________________________________________________
5. Outstanding performance in Service Delivery - New Entrants
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: e-Krishi Vipanan, Madhya Pradesh
Golden Icon: HALRIS-Government of Haryana
Golden Icon: Telemedicine,Department of Information Technology, Govt.
OfWB
______________________________________________________________________
6. Outstanding performance in Service Delivery - Professional
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Declaration of Examination Results - NIC
Silver Icon: Review on CARD Project in AP O/o Commissioner,
Registration of Stamps, Hyderabad
Bronze Icon: BSNL Portal and DOTSOFT
______________________________________________________________________
7 Innovative Operations and Best Practices - New Entrants
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: e-Vikas,Government Himachal Pradesh
Silver Icon: AKSHAYA- Government of Kerala
Bronze Icon: e-Governance implementation in Dte and Field Units of
Department of Agriculture (DACNET)
______________________________________________________________________
8. Innovative Operations and Best Practices - Professional
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Rural e-Seva, Andhra Pradesh
Silver Icon: e-health Care Foundation
Bronze Icon: SAPNET-Andhra Pradesh
______________________________________________________________________
9. Trail Blazing application of the year
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Text to Speech and Text to Brail - West Bengal
Silver Icon: Forest Mapping - Forest Department, Government of Andhra
Pradesh
______________________________________________________________________
10. Best Documented Knowledge Resource and Case study -New Entrants
______________________________________________________________________
Golden Icon: Kalasampada-Ministry of Culture,Government of India &
SENET-Ministry of SSI Government of India
Silver Icon: Incredible India - Department of Tourism Government of
India
______________________________________________________________________
The awards would be presented during the inaugural section of the 8th
National Conference on Egovernance on February 3, 2005.
(Source: http://darpg.nic.in/content/Annexure-1.pdf)
The scheme for awards may be seen at
http://darpg.nic.in/content/award8thNatConf.doc
Our congratulations to the winners of awards. The Department of
Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances also needs to be
congratulated for conceiving these awards and ensuring that the
winners of the awards are duly reconised on the inaugural
day of the 8th National Conference on E-Governance at Bhubaneswar
(February 3-5, 2005).
Dr D.C.Misra
February 3, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: Forthcoming Event-25: The India UK ICT Conference 2005,
February 14-15, 2005, New Delhi
Check for details
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ict
Dr D.C.Misra
February 3, 2005.
Cyber Quiz: eGov Website-35: Government Resource Centre (GRC)
Exchange: Measuring Governance
According to the website: "Governance is a complex and multi-
dimensional concept, and effective governance measurement raises a
host of methodological and conceptual difficulties. A number of
indicators for measuring governance have been produced and there is
considerable debate about the merits of different approaches." An
excellent website, check it for details:
http://www.grc-exchange.org/g_themes/measuring_governance.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 2, 2005
Cyber Quiz: eGov Website-34: Governance Resource Centre (GRC)
Exchange, Department for International Development (DFID), United
KIngdom
The Government Resource Centre (GRC) Exchange is "a new website
sharing the latest information about governance in development.
Hosted by the Governance Resource Centre (GRC) of the UK Department
for International Development (DFID), and compiled by leading
international experts, the GRC Exchange provides a focal point for
sharing ideas in governance."
The Government Resource Centre (GRC) and Government Resource Centre
(GRC) Exchange are managed by a partnership between the International
Development Department (IDD) of the School of Public Policy at the
University of Birmingham, and the Institute of Development Studies
(IDS) at the University of Sussex.
Dr D.C.Misra
February 2, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: NGO-4: CIVICUS, Washington, D.C. and
Johannesburg, South Africa
CIVICUS "is an international alliance established in 1993 to
nurture the foundation, growth and protection of citizen action
throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory
democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened."
Check it at
http://www.civicus.org/new/default.asp?skip2=yes
Dr D.C.Misra
February 2, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-58: The Internet Public Library (IPL),
School of Information, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, MI
The Internet Public Library (IPL), Ann Abor, MI "is a public
service organization and learning/teaching environment at the
University of Michigan School of Information." Check it at
http://www.ipl.org/div/about/
Dr D.C.Misra
February 2, 2005
Cyber Quiz: Website Watch-57: World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE)
The World Institute for the Digital Economy (WIDE), "is an international
non-profit association founded with world class academics and business thought
leaders to stimulate, and contribute to the development of the emerging Digital
Economy, by promoting research projects as well as educational and training
activities, in order to facilitate a balanced growth of the networked economy in
Europe and in all countries of the world." Check it at
http://www.digiconomy.org/about/about.html
Dr D.C.Misra
February 2, 2005
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