Today, Information and Communication Technology intervention has become inevitable to our everyday modern life. At many instances without its support, life goes almost stand still. In the field of medical sciences and researches, ICT has proliferated incredibly deep enabling innovations in life saving devices and applications, which are put in use even at the remotest of villages.
One of the key focuses of Government is citizen health and medication. Though many challenges still exist in providing the best of services, the positive aspect is that many of the challenges give way to opportunities. ‘Telestroke’, the innovative application sets an example for the wise saying- ‘need is the mother of invention’. Dr. Purnima Chauhan, IAS, in our guest column writes on this application developed for Himachal Pradesh.
We have a number of interesting articles on the latest e-Governance applications developed by NIC which includes mobile Apps. Mobile Governance in Bihar, HotDak tracking system, eDashboard for Elections, eSeed, Bhavishya, System for Debt Redemption Scheme, Single Window Clearance System and DC*Suite are covered in the eGov Products and Services section.
In the Technology Update covers oAuth based single sign on in MyGov, DarkNet, the hidden side of web and Centralised Antivirus Management of NIC. The District Informatics covers the districts Patna & Sirmaur and Computerisation of Jodhpur Development Authority.
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