Re: Admn. + IT

[Nikhil Parekh <nikhil2000@yahoo.com>]

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There is a very interesting Interview with Mr. Nara
Chandrababu Naidu the Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh.

He talks about using IT to alleviate poverty.

"I am confident that information technology can bring
accountability, transparency and quick disposal of
cases and redressal of grievances in all the villages.
I believe it can alleviate poverty. I see three areas
where information technology can be an effective tool:
job generation, poverty eradication and wealth
generation."

We need more people like him running the govt. in
India!!!

The interview can be found at

http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/feb/08naidu.htm

Nikhil


--- Manish Gupta <ml_gupta@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >b) 	I am finalizing a note on IT policy for
> Meghalaya. All those with
> >experience/ ideas can please write on the issue of
> IT in government and IT
> >outside government. Thanks. How does one persuade
> political leaders to
> >promote IT? How does one attract investment in this
> remote NE state?
> >
> 
> I know that this might not come under your area and
> it may be little bit out 
> of topic. I am pointing about the use '.in' top
> level domain name in India 
> (If I am not wrong its registered with NCST). I am
> still not able to 
> understand that why can't they start there own
> registration process (and 
> market) so Indian businesse/Organizations who really
> don't need a global 
> .com/.org can be satisfied with .co.in/.or.in (or
> something like this). By 
> doing this we'll be realy designing our own Internet
> infrastructure. Today 
> if you have to access any website from India hosted
> in India, the address of 
> the machine on which website is hosted most probably
> come from the US 
> (Instead NCST should be the Name server). By doing
> this NCST'd be generating 
> some money too.
> 
> I feel like crying when I see website of
> parliament/ministries ending with 
> nic.in. I really don't understand what happens to
> those bright people as 
> soon as they become policy makers.
> 
> Moreover this doesn't even require any innovation,
> you can simply copy the 
> format being used by Japan/England
> 
> .co.in (corporations/business)
> .ac.in (acedemic institution), etc.
> 
> We should correct this mess while we can, otherwise
> we'll end up with mess 
> like we have created around us by the name of
> telephone numbering system.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Manish
>
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