Current Issue
Volume 22, No. 1, February 2012
The current issue of Information Technology in Developing Countries carries five articles and information on 3 international conferences.
The first article " Telecentre Matters: Getting the Basics Right" by Dr . Vignesh Sornamohan examines two different telecentre models namely, the Common Services Centres (CSCs) and Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs). The paper is an excerpt of the author's Ph.D Thesis entitled 'Efficiency and Sustainability of Telecentres in Rural Areas: A Comparative Study of Community Multimedia Centres and Common Services Centres'.
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The next article by Shilpi Varshney is titled " Legal Literacy for Access to Justice An innovative approach towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal".The Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India with the support of United Nations Development Programme is implementing a Project on Access to Justice for Marginalized People. The paper discusses the curriculum and contents prepared for Legal Literacy under Access to Justice Project and how it shall help the marginalised communities to consider Law not as a inhibiting factor but an enabling framework to make their lives better with its proper utilisation.
Dr Monisha Borthakur's article on "Need of the hour : Pan India e-mechanism to give access to Bharat Nirman & Flagship Services at the citizen's doorstep…… ladder leading to rural transformation" talks about how private organizations can help Government to conceptualise, initiate and implement country wide transformational projects to bring public services closer home to citizens.
The next article on " SWABHIMAN-An Innovative Urban ICT Project of Kerala " by Dr. C. Krishnan talks about an an innovative project called " Swabhiman " mooted by a District Administration of Kerala, a state well known for its unique development model. Swabhimaan, is a well-defined integrated software solution based on the twin-concepts of employment generation and making available the service of skilled personnel for the household needs.
Conference announcements include ICDGS 2012 : International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society, International Conference on eBusiness and eGovernment (ICEBEG 2012) and 3rd International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE) in May 2012 to be held in china.
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