news Delhi Cabinet Approves Geospatial Data Bill The Delhi cabinet has approved the draft Delhi Geospatial Data Infrastructure Bill, 2011 - a flagship project of the government launched to frame and implement policies relating to geospatial data. The Bill will serve as a base for planning and executing various development projects and utility services.
As per Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure (DSSDI) project was launched to frame and implement policies for issues related to geospatial data. The data could be utilised through the Geographical Information System established at two centres in the city, reported IANS.
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Haryana to Upgrade IT Facilities for Better e-Governance The Haryana government has decided to create an information technology (IT) cadre for implementation of the state’s e-Governance initiatives in various departments. An official spokesman said that the state government has already prepared the basic structure for the IT cadre and it would be finalising the same shortly, reported IANS. The state government has also decided to set up Informa-
tion and Communication Technology (ICT) labs in more than 2,600 government schools and all the government colleges. This facility would be in addition to the IT education facilities in various technical institutions in the state. “Special programmes have been designed for the training of government employees so as to enable them to increasingly use ICT in their day to day work,” spokesperson said.
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Goa Roads to be Monitored Through Surveillance Cameras In a bid to make Goa “terror alert”, all major roads will soon be monitored througnh unmanned surveillance cameras, according to the Economic Survey tabled in the State Assembly recently. “The surveillance project would ensure setting up of surveillance cameras at major roads and junctions, public places, places of strategic importance,” the report says. With increased security and terrorism
threats in the country, building a comprehensive surveillance system is
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File RTI on Phone in Karnataka Karnataka is all set to open a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre - the first of its kind in the country — exclusively for filing petitions under the Right to Information Act. Citizens will just have to call up the centre, expected to be located in Bangalore, to file RTI applications, in lieu of some charges. Any citizen can call up the BPO call centre and file an RTI against any department of the state. The user will be charged
for the call which will be considered as the fee for the RTI application. Called as ‘Mahiti’ (means information in Kannada), the project will be launched in June. Along with the BPO, the
The Way Forward in Cyber Security A national seminar on ‘Cyber Threats: Issues and Challenges’was organised by MCA/CS/IT Departments at I.T.S Engineering College, Greater Noida on 2nd April 2011. eGov was the media partner to the event Dr Gulshan Rai , Director General, CERT-In (Computer Emergency Response Team-India) and Group Coordinator
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critical for enhancing safety and security of citizens and assets.
of e-Security and Cyber Law Division in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was the Chief Guest at the event. The theme of the first session was ‘Emerging Cyber Threats’. Cyber threats such as cyber warfare, virus attacks, cyber terrorism, hacking, phishing, credit
card frauds, theft of information, e-mail spoofing, spamming, cyber stalking, damaging computer systems; insider threats and MMS scams were discussed. The speakers brought out that cyber security threats today are more organised, targeted and have financial motives and call for new organisational structures, greater
government will also club it with grievance redressal supervision and monitoring system to track the RTI complaints. The medium for filing the petition will be in Kannada and English.