The Government and Indian Bureaucrats need to change their mindset and stress more upon outcomes and services rather than mere ICT procurement. India needs a services-based approach that is not only transparent but also backed by a more efficient and willing Government. Presently the Bureaucrats and Government of India are in a “resistance mode” towards novel and effective e-governance policies and strategies and they are merely computerising traditional official functions only. This is bene more...

Cyber Forensics is an important part of any criminal investigation involving cyber crimes and contraventions. However, it requires a sound expertise to be practiced. Cyber Forensics in India has started gaining importance out of the necessity to deal with modern cyber crimes. Though India has taken some steps in the direction of enacting ICT related law in the form of Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000), yet by and large it failed to provide a sound and secure law in this crucial dir more...

In two weeks an attack add by McCain on YouTube was viewed two million times; 'Will.i.am’s ode to Mr Obama, “Yes we can”, has had nearly 9m views since it was uploaded six months ago; some 1.9m have watched the McCain Girls’“Raining McCain” over the past four months.' 'Last year, seven of the 16 major presidential contenders kicked off their campaigns online.' Mr Obama has raised 'more money—seen in real time—from the grassroots than any campaign ever. In June alone he raised a more...

GTV, a satellite-television company created just over a year ago, has signed up more than 100,000 customers in 20 countries in Sub Saharan Africa—which, it reckons, translates into 1.25m regular viewers. GTV is expected to compete with the 'quasi-monopolies that Canal+, a French operator, and DStv, a subsidiary of Naspers, a South African media giant have enjoyed for years.' Currently in Sub Saharan Africa only 14% of families own televisions, and only 1% of households are connected to pay TV. more...

Lead: 'Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling protecting its use even though it is given away free.' The article continues: 'The US federal appeals court move overturned a lower court decision involving free software used in model trains that a hobbyist put online. The court has now said conditions of an agreement called the Artistic Licence were enforceable under copyright law. 'For non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important but this is huge,' said Stanford Law Professor Larr more...

Cyber Forensics is an important field of criminal investigation. However, it requires a sound expertise to be practiced. In India we have very few experts who can provide cyber forensics services in an appropriate manner. Take for example the recent case of the Forensic Science Laboratory, Maharashtra, which sough help from the Purdue University, US regarding the wireless routers and their functions. Interestingly, the law enforcement machinery in India first tried to solve the case itself but l more...

Very few words are more fanciful than the words electronic governance (e-governance). These words have a tendency to portray an image of all advanced Nation or capable manpower. But the bigger question is what is more important; the image or reality? We have to analyse this question in the light of e-governance in India and the efforts of Government of India to achieve the Herculean task of being an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled and capable Nation.

The Obama campaign is planning to announce its Vice Presidential nomination early via text messaging. Doing so should encourage large numbers of people to provide their text messaging addresses to the campaign, which will later be used in voter turnout campaigns. 'A study conducted during the 2006 elections showed that text-message reminders helped increase turnout among new voters by four percentage points, at a cost of only $1.56 per vote — much cheaper than the $20 or $30 per vote that the more...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $55 million loan to the leading mobile phone provider in Afghanistan, so it can extend its coverage to parts of the country that have little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place.
“This expansion will introduce mobile phone services to remote and war-torn areas, which lag far behind in the nation’s reconstruction efforts and for which telecom services are vital,” said Mr. Michael Barrow, a Director of ADB’s Private Sector Depart more...

'In the wake of Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure, whose tactics have already managed to compromise several government web sites and is continuing to launch DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting them to switch to hosting locations to the U.S, with Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertaking a desperat more...