The World Bank has given about US$424 million to Eastern and Southern African countries for a program designed to improve regional communication infrastructure and increase the deployment of e-government.

Poor rural families across southern and central Madagascar will be able to increase their incomes after the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced a $19 million scheme to improve farming production.

At New Delhi,India,on October 13th 2008,Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has a signed a deal with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, for the Passport Automation Project - the largest mission-critical E-governance project valued at over Rs.10,000 million.

News and information relating to IGNOU for its students will now be SMS away.The first level of mobile services will start in next 15 days with info about its courses such as exam dates, updating personal details etc.

The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (NITT) has expressed a keen interest in starting a Telemedicine Centre, during a workshop on 'Telemedicine' conducted recently by the institute under its Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP).

NSE IT Limited is implementing e-Auction software in all the auction centres of North and south India. The Tea Board will introduce the e-auction format in November 2008.

Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will soon cover the whole city under its 'Unwired Pune' project. PMC is planning to install WiFi hotspots at Citizen Facilitation Centre (CFC) kiosks being set up at 144 places.

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