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Shillong Declaration on e-Governance
The Shillong Declaration on e-Governance was adopted at the 22nd National Conference on e-Governance held at Shillong. Shillong Declaration The Shillong Declaration’ outlines the future trajectory the country would take in terms of e-Governance. The declaration states that: The Government of India and State Governments would collaborate to improve the citizen’s experience with Government services by ..
Topics: Academic disciplines • Digital India • E-commerce • E-governance • E-government • Ministry of Communications and Information Technology • National Conference on e-Governance • Open government • Shillong • Shillong Declaration • Smart city • Tourism in North East India
COMMIT
The Union Government has launched a new training programme known as COMMIT- Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training for State Government officials. The objective of this training programme is to improve the public service delivery mechanism and provide citizen centric administration through capacity building of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis. ..
Topics: E-commerce • E-democracy • E-government • Government • Loadable kernel module • Open government • Public administration • System software
Official Secrets Act Versus Right to Information Act
Recently, West Bengal Government has declassified certain documents related to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The government in that state is further planning to digitize the records of the freedom struggle from 1937 to 1947 in order to preserve history. This topic has been appearing in newspapers frequently. Further, the Central Government has also said that ..
Topics: India • Information • Information sensitivity • National security • Official Secrets Act • Open government • Right to Information Act • Secrecy • Secrets Act
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS)
The UPA Government had initiated the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) project in 2009 as part of its police modernisation programme under the national e-governance project. It was conceived to bring all 16,000 police stations in India under a single network to counter terror challenges. Objectives of CCTNS The core objective of CCTNS is ..
Topics: India • Internal Security in India • Law and Order in India • National Crime Records Bureau • Open government • Police • Police Reforms • Prevention • Public administration • Safety
‘Track Child’: A web portal by Women and Child Development Ministry
The Union Women and Child Development Ministry unveiled a portal Track Child to function as a central database of all those children who have gone missing in different parts of the country. The portal will aid coordination b/w child homes, police departments and state governments. The details of the missing child after filing FIR will ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2012
Topics: E-commerce • E-democracy • E-government • Government • Open government • Public administration
India, US start ‘Open Government Platform’
India and the United States inaugurated the Open Government Platform (OGPL) Objective of OGPL: It is a bilateral effort focused at foment transparency and increase citizen engagement by making government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available. It was launched at US-India joint commission meeting on science and technology Cooperation OGPL is built on open ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012
Topics: Collaboration • Free software • OGPL • Open content • Open data • Open government • Open science • Open Source • Transparency