New IT Policy Designed to Promote E-Service Delivery

The forthcoming IT policy of the Kerala government will give stress upon e-services delivery to citizens as one of the focused areas.Principal Secretary (Information Technology) P. H. Kurian told a Central team visiting the State to review implementation of e-governance programmes that a futuristic, integrated service delivery framework had been chalked out by the Kerala State IT Mission. It envisaged a single identity for citizens to log in to a State portal to access the services. A detailed, long-term plan is under preparation now in consultation with all departments, focussing on high volume.The Central team, led by Sathya Narayana, Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, reviewed the progress of various eGovernance initiatives undertaken by the State, particularly the e-district programme and the State Service Delivery Gateway programme. The team held discussions with the chief secretary and other government secretaries on the integrated e-governance delivery services to be rolled out in the State.An official release said that the team had expressed satisfaction about the progress of various programmes and had explored the possibility of replicating some of the successful e-models of Kerala such as the e-literacy programme, common service centres and e-district programme in other States.

e-district is a State Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan. It seeks to provide integrated, seamless and online delivery of citizen services at the district-level through automation of work flow, back-end digitisation, integration and process redesign.

This project targeted high volume services delivered at the district-level and to undertake back-end computerisation to enable the delivery of citizen services through Akshaya centres.The state government has implemented the pilot phase of e-district project in Kannur and Palakad and delivery of 23 revenue certificates have been made online. An estimated eight lakh e-applications have been processed during the pilot run and certificates issued in 80 per cent of the cases. The e-district services are proposed to be rolled out to rest of Kerala in a year's time.The State Service Delivery Gateway project was formulated under the National E-governance Plan to fulfil the vision of integrating all services across departments and provide the same through common service centres and State portals.

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No other magazine in Asia offers readers such in-depth coverage of new e-Governance models. We cover all aspects of eGovernance - from new technological advances in ICT to the ways in which common citizens benefit when their interactions with government departments are through digital interfaces and the myriad issues involved in implementation of e-Governance initiatives.The eGov magazine's biggest advantage is its ability to carry the views of all the stakeholders in e-Governance domain - policy makers, experts, industry leaders, administrators and the academia. Our experienced team of editors, researchers, and marketers take a 360-degree approach for creating content - breaking news, feature articles and interviews - that can keep our steadily growing global audience well informed on issues of e-Governance. The who's who in the industry disseminate their ideas and innovations through the pages of our magazine.

The eGov magazine enjoys the distinction of being Asia's first magazine on e-Governance. Founded in 2005, the monthly magazine is published in both print and online formats, and is focussed exclusively on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for bringing efficiency, accountability and transparency to various citizen and business related initiatives of the government.

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Promote the recycling of computers and printers

The recycling of any product means that the used is put through a process to make it into a new useable product. Computer recycling of all components is possible these days meaning old computers don't end up harming the environment in landfill. Recycled computers can be re-used and made into childrens playground equipment, garden hoses and kids toys to name a few. Both individuals and companies use computer recyclers to reduce their carbon footprint and contribute towards saving out environment.

The process of computer recycling means a lot of components of the machine are still good in shape to be used in another machine or few new parts if added to the machine will make it usable. This allows us to find another use of the product. As earlier mention computer recycling can also be the process of recycling the material for another use in a different product.

Since recycling has become a promoted activity among the developed countries to safeguard the environment from the hazards of dumping the electronic products, computer recycling is a way or another step towards a greener planet.

The computer recyclers provide a way to the individuals and businesses to ethically and responsibly dispose or dump their obsolete computer and electronic equipments.

There is a large amount of batteries used in computers and other electronic products which makes it important to create awareness among people to dispose the batteries and their machines properly. Disposing batteries and machines into landfill isn't safe for environment and largely to the society. In many developed countries there are laws against disposal of batteries and computers which may cost the individuals or companies a hefty fine.

Like computers, printers also come under the category of machines. Like a computer, a printer also has a battery. The recycling of printers means it can be used again after following some processes which makes it usable or alternatively recycled into a new product.

Printer Recycling is another great way for both companies and individuals to help the environment. Printer recyclying is a major industry now and there are also some very good reasons to recycle the printer cartridges.

It is evident that nearly 3.4 litres of oil is needed to get one new laser cartridge. In 12 months, if we look at the requirement of cartridges we will find that cartridge recycling could save 4.3 million litres of oil in small countries.

Planet Green Recycling Centre in North Ryde, Sydney is the complete E-Waste Computer Recycling centre. Drop-off your TV, computer, Printer Recycling and other E-Waste for recycling.

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IT Events Help To Promote Your IT Support Services

This is the world of science and technology and every business sector is using all these things to enhance the business quality & productivity. Today information technology is helping people drastically in every area of business. But they also require taking information about the new technical changes and challenges in this field.

If you are an IT company and probably running your own operations center offering the NOC services they it is very necessary to take the technology latest updates in order to be in the competition. Your company should have all the latest tools and services to provide an efficient IT service to the client. You can attend various events and conferences to receive this information if you want to get the technical information by meeting in personal with other people. This type of activity is very productive and can give many benefits to an individual or a company.

There are different benefits attached in attending these types of conferences and events. Some major changes that your business can experience by doing such activities are discussed below:
Increases networking between groups and businesses
When a person is going to attend any event he can easily meet the same industry personnel. Then they can share new information regarding to their business and other things that are relevant to their business. They can share their contact information so that they can meet again anytime if required.

Face-to-face interaction

Attending the events gives the benefit of having a face-to-face interaction with the business professionals of same industry. It is very difficult in our normal routine to have an appointment with other relevant persons. Such events make it possible to make a prior appointment with the person who is also attending the event. Many of the business transactions cannot be discussed remotely but by meeting in personal have a different experience.

Brand promotion and creation of niche

Networking also helps you to promote your brand in these events as a professional or you can show your business as an expert in the same industry. Being a network management service provider and specialization in the network monitoring service you can develop a brand name for that service and easily put it live in such events before others.
With this we can create our niche market as well, there are many customers those do not have any information about the service that can benefit them. Here we can easily target them by meeting them in personal and discus about their requirements that is not very much effective by mailing to them or telephonic chats.

These opportunities provide us in a way to do the advertising for our business and also find different people and organization by which we can make a link to share information and business activities.

Khalid Kamal as a Business Development Associate of ProVal Technologies (managed IT services provider Company). He is continuously providing updates about technical services like Server Management and other IT support by his writings.

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