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Buy A Business And Save A Lot Of Money On Equipment With This Simple Tip nd through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks.One of the easiest and simplest parts of analyzing a business -- that is always made difficult, even by the Harvard Business School wizards -- is valuing the equipment of a business you are wanting to buy.However, if you do it my way (not generally taught in the business schools) this is extremely simple, won't cost you a penny and will actually make running your business easier in the long run.But before I reveal my secret, just know (in case this is all new to you) that if you ask four different people in the industry how this is done, you're going to get four different answers. And none of them will be correct.And so what I want to get across to you here is the best way to determine the value of the equipment in a business you are wanting to buy is simply go to the people that supply you with the equipment.Why?Two reasons:1.) They have things just like a Kelly Blue Book that they use in the auto business that lists what the different pieces of used equipment are, and you’re going to find they can come back with a verbal or a written appraisal as to what the equipment’s worth.This is extremely important.In fact, in the last few years because of inflation running higher than normal, we found a lot of the equipment being purchased is actually worth as much or more than what they paid for it.And as a buyer, you’re going to pick up a lot of value in this area. Sometimes you will find owners selling their equipment for $100,000 but it's really worth $300,000.2.) In most cases, it doesn’t cost anything.Why?Because they are going to want to sell you more equipment in the future.It's like with business plans. You can sometimes find "free" business plan services or programs online because the people giving them away want to sell you financing. It gets you in the door. And it's the same with equipment.Bottom line: When it comes to evaluating the worth of equipment in a business you want to buy, skip all the fancy mathematics and expensive services, and just go right to the equipment 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to th Top 10 Habits of a Database Marketer 1.INTRODUCTION:Name your most valuable company asset: Inventory? Equipment? Employees? If you've got customers, your number one asset is your customer list. That's because the fastest way to grow your business exponentially is to squeeze every drop of profits from customers you already have using database marketing.Take this 10-point true/false quiz to see if you possess the habits of an effective database marketer. Give yourself 1 point for each "true" answer:1. I collect complete contact information (name, address, phone numbers, email address) on every customer and new inquirer2. I keep all my contacts in a single database (including customers, prospects, referral partners, vendors, friends, family)3. I keep track of how each customer or prospect found me so I can duplicate my successes (and can the flops)4. I have a templated, easy-to-use, automatic response system to follow up with prospects before, during and after the sale5. I can easily cross sell my other services to current customers because I track what they bought previously through database segmentation6. I have a system to track opt-outs to my email marketing campaigns so I can stay CAN-SPAM compliant with my e-marketing. I also follow-up on bounce-back emails so I don't lose precious connections with my customers and prospects7. I can forecast and act upon my projected sales for the next week, month or quarter based on opportunities in my sales pipeline8. I have a database clean-up plan to update my contacts at least once per year9. I have a bullet-proof procedure for tracking open and closed customer service issues10. Leads from my website are automatically entered into my customer database, and I'm notified instantly to take follow-up actionWhat Your Score MeansIf you scored a 7 or less, you're working way too hard for business. Most likely, you're developing each customer one at a time. To become a database marketer, you must instead create a systematic sales process that runs on auto-pilot and stimulates new orders whether you're working or not. Selling custo World economies have recognized Information Technology as an effective tool in catalyzing the economic activity in efficient governance and in developing human resource. They have made significant investments in it and successfully integrated it with the development process, thereby reaping the benefits to their society. In India also, these developments have impacted the industrial, education, service and Government sectors and their influence on various applications is increasingly being felt of late. As the era of digital economy is evolving, the concept of governance has assumed significant importance. The e-Governance has consequently become an accepted methodology involving the use of Information Technology in improving transparency, providing information speedily to all citizens, improving administration efficiency and improving public services such as transportation, power, health, water, security and municipal services. India has been harnessing the benefits provided by the Information & Communication Technologies to provide integrated governance, reach to the citizens faster,provide efficient services and citizen empowerment through access to information. The aim is to redefine governance in the ICT age to provide Smart Governance. Several significant initiatives have been taken at the Centre and the State level in this direction. At the Central level, the government has extensively promoted the use of IT in managing its internal processes and has drawn up a ‘Minimum Agenda of e-Governance’. The Ministries/Departments have provision of 2 to 3 percent of their annual budgets to be spent on IT related activities. The Government has enacted IT Act 2000, which provides legal status to the information and transactions carried on the net. Several State Governments have also taken various innovative steps to promote e-Governance and have drawn up a roadmap for IT implementation and delivery of services to the citizens online. The applications that have been implemented are targeted towards providing G2B, G2C and B2C services with emphasis on use of local language. 2.DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY’S INITIATIVES: As part of the increased thrust on e-Governance, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Government of India has set up a Centre for e-Governance (CEG) at its premises – Electronics Niketan in New Delhi.The Centre, first of its kind in the country, showcases several e-Governance applications and solutions that have been successfully deployed in various states and offers such other services like technical consultation, proof of concept and thematic presentations. Conducting programmes for creating awareness among decision makers in the Centre and State Governments and helping them in defining and implementing process and policy changes for effective e-Governance are other important objectives of the Centre.The primary activities of the Centre are: o To showcase the best practices in the area of Electronic Governance, which would encompass technology, processes as well as public policies Conduct programs for creating awareness among decision makers in the Central and state Governments Demonstrate the feasibility of Electronic Governance to decision makers through workshops, demonstration programs,video/teleconferencing, etc. Help the Central and State Governments in defining and implementing process and policy changes To enrich the repository of best practices through continuous interaction with subject matter experts from India and abroad. The Centre also draws upon leading companies, technical institutions and business partners in India and abroad and help initiate projects to address specific needs. The Centre continuously strives to establish strong links with similar institutions worldwide to enrich the repository of best practices through interaction and participation. 3. SOME E-GOVERNANCE PROJECTS/APPLICATIONS OPERATIONAL ACROSS INDIA: 3.1 Bhoomi (Land Records) Bhoomi is a self-sustainable e-governance project for the computerized delivery of 20 million rural land records to 6.7 million farmers through 177 Government owned kiosks in the Indian state of Karnataka, which has eliminated red tape and corruption in the issue of land title records, and is fast becoming the backbone for credible IT-enabled Government services for the rural population. 3.2 Stamps Registration and Archiving (SARITA) The Stamps and Registration Department of a State is typically one of the top revenue earners for any Government. Stamp & Registration software provides efficient government citizen interface, and also enables enhanced revenue earnings for the Stamps and Registration operation. The heart of this application consists of the Registration and Valuation module. Other modules are the Networking and Scanning modules that enable exchange of information securely across departments, and "electronic copying" of the registered documents thereby enabling return of the original document within few minutes of presentation. 3.3 Versatile Online Information for Citizen Empowerment (VOICE) Municipalities have a challenging task of providing various kinds of citizen services.VOICE caters to these challenges through the use of state-of-the-art information Technology.In addition to computerisation of the day-to-day operations,VOICE also provides a powerful Community and empowers the citizen. This application ensures a quick, transparent and efficient administration at a lower operating cost with increased revenue collections. 3.4 e-Seva eSeva is the first-of-its-kind of service in the country, providing a wide spectrum of citizenfriendly services that save citizen the bother of running around various departments. The services offered are Payment of Utilities Bills,Registration of Birth/Death, Issue of Birth/Death certificates, Permits/Licences, Reservations etc. There are 35 eSeva centres (with 280 service counters) spread over the Twin Cities and Ranga Reddy District. 3.5 Gyandoot Gyandoot is an intranet in the tribal district of Dhar in Central India connecting rural Cybercafes catering to the everyday needs of the masses. It is a community-based, highly costeffective and financially self-reliant approach to bringing the benefits of Information Technology to the doorsteps of tribal villagers. The objective of the Gyandoot project has been to establish a community-owned, innovative and sustainable information technology project in the most poverty stricken and tribal dominated rural areas. The project is designed to cater to social,economic and development needs of the villagers through an innovative G2C model.There are around 1600 villages in Dhar district and 80 information kiosks/cyber offices(Soochanalayas). Each kiosk caters to about 25 to 30 villages. The entire network of 31 kiosks covers 311 Panchayats (village committees),over 600 villages and a population of around half a million (nearly 50% of the entire district). 3.6 e-Choupal Started by ITC’s international Business Division as a cost-effective alternative supply chain system to deal directly with the farmer to buy products for exports is getting transformed into a meta market for rural India. The tobacco giant has already set up over 700 choupals covering 3,800 villages in four states — which include Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — dealing with products ranging from soya bean, coffee, aquaculture and wheat. 3.7 VidyaVahini This portal provides the opportunity for schools,teachers and students all across the nation to express and share their creative and academic potential via the internet. The portal aims at creating such an environment by providing facilities for content development, content deployment and collaboration. Shiksha India - a non- profit organisation - is working in partnership with the Ministry of Information Technology in the project Vidya Vahini and Ministry of Human Resources under the CLASS scheme, which aims to connect 60.000 schools (approximately 20 million students) across the country in the next five years. 3.8 Aarakshi Aarakshi is an intranet-based system for the Jaipur City Police to facilitate FIRs,criminalsrecords, vehicle thefts, missing person’s records etc. It is like a private & closed user group accessible to only authorised personnel. Its potential users are all field level officers of the city like police station, circle officers SP and even district collector. 3.9 Webciti WebCITI (Web based Citizen-IT Interface) is an e-Governance project for building citizen-IT interface for services offered by district administration at Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab. It provides web-based interface to citizens seeking services from district administration and provides complete workflow automation in District Commissioners office. It is information dissemination system designed to facilitate public to get information about various government schemes such as eligibility criteria, procedures, contact addresses, downloadable forms etc. These include issuance of certificates such as death/birth, caste, rural area etc.,licenses such as arms license, permission for conferences/rallies etc., benefits from socioeconomic schemes etc. The information about various schemes and procedures, status of an application etc. can be found through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks. 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to th Simple is Powerful for e-Governance (CEG) at its premises – Electronics Niketan in New Delhi.The Centre, first of its kind in the country,
showcases several e-Governance applications and solutions that have been successfully
deployed in various states and offers such other services like technical consultation, proof of concept and thematic presentations. Conducting programmes for creating awareness among decision makers in the Centre and State Governments and helping them in defining and
implementing process and policy changes for effective e-Governance are other important
objectives of the Centre.The primary activities of the Centre are:I look forward to a late afternoon workout, especially after sitting all-day and working on my computer. I tend to become myopic and need to spread out beyond the mirror to my left and the wall behind me. The smell of the damp leaves, the passing headlights of the cars as I attempt to cross the road, and the kindness of the post office worker all allows me to reconnect to the world. And as I focus on the leaves that have fallen on the trail in front of me, my mind begins to go into a semi-trance. Little by little, I think about the step ahead, one after another. This active mediation is when I get some of my best ideas. When I am not trying too hard. Creativity is like that. It needs the space to emerge.As a speaker, I have wanted to come up with my own system. This is a way for speakers to become different, to go beyond the 'he's just another creativity speaker.' I have learned that when a speaker has a system, many more things are possible for my clients such as, gaining a fresh perspective, generating new ideas, sharpening the focus and creating more business. Sometime at the beginning of the year I stopped trying for my system. While I put the goal of developing a system into the 'Long Term Aspiration' section in my journal, I stopped trying to force a solution. It wasn't until late this summer that it happened, some 9 months later. Towards the end of the day after a speaking assignment, I searched the Internet for a local gymnasium and jogged over to the health club. It felt good to get my body moving and my mind out of a dark conference room with heavy drapes and only a wisp of outside light. Earlier in the day, I had put in my journal that I wanted to figure out how to increase the communication power of my customer.According to one of my favorite books, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, he states, "The subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be repeated over and over again. ... Be on alert for these plans, and when they appear, but them into action immediately." I had put the desire o To showcase the best practices in the area of Electronic Governance, which would encompass technology, processes as well as public policies Conduct programs for creating awareness among decision makers in the Central and state Governments Demonstrate the feasibility of Electronic Governance to decision makers through workshops, demonstration programs,video/teleconferencing, etc. Help the Central and State Governments in defining and implementing process and policy changes To enrich the repository of best practices through continuous interaction with subject matter experts from India and abroad. The Centre also draws upon leading companies, technical institutions and business partners in India and abroad and help initiate projects to address specific needs. The Centre continuously strives to establish strong links with similar institutions worldwide to enrich the repository of best practices through interaction and participation. 3. SOME E-GOVERNANCE PROJECTS/APPLICATIONS OPERATIONAL ACROSS INDIA: 3.1 Bhoomi (Land Records) Bhoomi is a self-sustainable e-governance project for the computerized delivery of 20 million rural land records to 6.7 million farmers through 177 Government owned kiosks in the Indian state of Karnataka, which has eliminated red tape and corruption in the issue of land title records, and is fast becoming the backbone for credible IT-enabled Government services for the rural population. 3.2 Stamps Registration and Archiving (SARITA) The Stamps and Registration Department of a State is typically one of the top revenue earners for any Government. Stamp & Registration software provides efficient government citizen interface, and also enables enhanced revenue earnings for the Stamps and Registration operation. The heart of this application consists of the Registration and Valuation module. Other modules are the Networking and Scanning modules that enable exchange of information securely across departments, and "electronic copying" of the registered documents thereby enabling return of the original document within few minutes of presentation. 3.3 Versatile Online Information for Citizen Empowerment (VOICE) Municipalities have a challenging task of providing various kinds of citizen services.VOICE caters to these challenges through the use of state-of-the-art information Technology.In addition to computerisation of the day-to-day operations,VOICE also provides a powerful Community and empowers the citizen. This application ensures a quick, transparent and efficient administration at a lower operating cost with increased revenue collections. 3.4 e-Seva eSeva is the first-of-its-kind of service in the country, providing a wide spectrum of citizenfriendly services that save citizen the bother of running around various departments. The services offered are Payment of Utilities Bills,Registration of Birth/Death, Issue of Birth/Death certificates, Permits/Licences, Reservations etc. There are 35 eSeva centres (with 280 service counters) spread over the Twin Cities and Ranga Reddy District. 3.5 Gyandoot Gyandoot is an intranet in the tribal district of Dhar in Central India connecting rural Cybercafes catering to the everyday needs of the masses. It is a community-based, highly costeffective and financially self-reliant approach to bringing the benefits of Information Technology to the doorsteps of tribal villagers. The objective of the Gyandoot project has been to establish a community-owned, innovative and sustainable information technology project in the most poverty stricken and tribal dominated rural areas. The project is designed to cater to social,economic and development needs of the villagers through an innovative G2C model.There are around 1600 villages in Dhar district and 80 information kiosks/cyber offices(Soochanalayas). Each kiosk caters to about 25 to 30 villages. The entire network of 31 kiosks covers 311 Panchayats (village committees),over 600 villages and a population of around half a million (nearly 50% of the entire district). 3.6 e-Choupal Started by ITC’s international Business Division as a cost-effective alternative supply chain system to deal directly with the farmer to buy products for exports is getting transformed into a meta market for rural India. The tobacco giant has already set up over 700 choupals covering 3,800 villages in four states — which include Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — dealing with products ranging from soya bean, coffee, aquaculture and wheat. 3.7 VidyaVahini This portal provides the opportunity for schools,teachers and students all across the nation to express and share their creative and academic potential via the internet. The portal aims at creating such an environment by providing facilities for content development, content deployment and collaboration. Shiksha India - a non- profit organisation - is working in partnership with the Ministry of Information Technology in the project Vidya Vahini and Ministry of Human Resources under the CLASS scheme, which aims to connect 60.000 schools (approximately 20 million students) across the country in the next five years. 3.8 Aarakshi Aarakshi is an intranet-based system for the Jaipur City Police to facilitate FIRs,criminalsrecords, vehicle thefts, missing person’s records etc. It is like a private & closed user group accessible to only authorised personnel. Its potential users are all field level officers of the city like police station, circle officers SP and even district collector. 3.9 Webciti WebCITI (Web based Citizen-IT Interface) is an e-Governance project for building citizen-IT interface for services offered by district administration at Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab. It provides web-based interface to citizens seeking services from district administration and provides complete workflow automation in District Commissioners office. It is information dissemination system designed to facilitate public to get information about various government schemes such as eligibility criteria, procedures, contact addresses, downloadable forms etc. These include issuance of certificates such as death/birth, caste, rural area etc.,licenses such as arms license, permission for conferences/rallies etc., benefits from socioeconomic schemes etc. The information about various schemes and procedures, status of an application etc. can be found through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks. 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to th Innovation Management - Emotion, Habit, and Culture can be Hard to Change! ed revenue earnings for the Stamps and Registration operation. The heart of this application consists
of the Registration and Valuation module. Other modules are the Networking and Scanning modules that enable exchange of information securely across departments, and "electronic copying" of the registered documents thereby enabling return of the original document within few minutes of presentation.Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.However, Franklin (2003) argues that even great ideas developed and commercialised brilliantly may fail to succeed due to cultural, emotional and habitual barriers. Even obviously cheaper, simpler and more effective ideas fail to take off.Whilst there are systems such as the S-curve that help predict and determine the magnitude of these barriers and hence the risk of successful commercialisation, the very nature of them makes them very hard and pin down in any quantitative or qualitative analysis.The strength of cultural, emotional and habitual barriers can be illustrated by the examples below:a) 11 million people have died of AIDS in Africa. Yet there is a taboo against condom use.b) The metric system is obviously a great system and used almost the world over – except in the United States.c) The ATM – cash point machines – initially failed to take off because people believed that they did not have the right to access money so easily.d) Scurvy was prevalent for years and the cure – lemon juice – was known, yet was not recognised as a legitimate cure for centuries.e) Sewage systems are only today being adopted in rural and poorer parts of the world.These topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com.You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your ema 3.3 Versatile Online Information for Citizen Empowerment (VOICE) Municipalities have a challenging task of providing various kinds of citizen services.VOICE caters to these challenges through the use of state-of-the-art information Technology.In addition to computerisation of the day-to-day operations,VOICE also provides a powerful Community and empowers the citizen. This application ensures a quick, transparent and efficient administration at a lower operating cost with increased revenue collections. 3.4 e-Seva eSeva is the first-of-its-kind of service in the country, providing a wide spectrum of citizenfriendly services that save citizen the bother of running around various departments. The services offered are Payment of Utilities Bills,Registration of Birth/Death, Issue of Birth/Death certificates, Permits/Licences, Reservations etc. There are 35 eSeva centres (with 280 service counters) spread over the Twin Cities and Ranga Reddy District. 3.5 Gyandoot Gyandoot is an intranet in the tribal district of Dhar in Central India connecting rural Cybercafes catering to the everyday needs of the masses. It is a community-based, highly costeffective and financially self-reliant approach to bringing the benefits of Information Technology to the doorsteps of tribal villagers. The objective of the Gyandoot project has been to establish a community-owned, innovative and sustainable information technology project in the most poverty stricken and tribal dominated rural areas. The project is designed to cater to social,economic and development needs of the villagers through an innovative G2C model.There are around 1600 villages in Dhar district and 80 information kiosks/cyber offices(Soochanalayas). Each kiosk caters to about 25 to 30 villages. The entire network of 31 kiosks covers 311 Panchayats (village committees),over 600 villages and a population of around half a million (nearly 50% of the entire district). 3.6 e-Choupal Started by ITC’s international Business Division as a cost-effective alternative supply chain system to deal directly with the farmer to buy products for exports is getting transformed into a meta market for rural India. The tobacco giant has already set up over 700 choupals covering 3,800 villages in four states — which include Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — dealing with products ranging from soya bean, coffee, aquaculture and wheat. 3.7 VidyaVahini This portal provides the opportunity for schools,teachers and students all across the nation to express and share their creative and academic potential via the internet. The portal aims at creating such an environment by providing facilities for content development, content deployment and collaboration. Shiksha India - a non- profit organisation - is working in partnership with the Ministry of Information Technology in the project Vidya Vahini and Ministry of Human Resources under the CLASS scheme, which aims to connect 60.000 schools (approximately 20 million students) across the country in the next five years. 3.8 Aarakshi Aarakshi is an intranet-based system for the Jaipur City Police to facilitate FIRs,criminalsrecords, vehicle thefts, missing person’s records etc. It is like a private & closed user group accessible to only authorised personnel. Its potential users are all field level officers of the city like police station, circle officers SP and even district collector. 3.9 Webciti WebCITI (Web based Citizen-IT Interface) is an e-Governance project for building citizen-IT interface for services offered by district administration at Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab. It provides web-based interface to citizens seeking services from district administration and provides complete workflow automation in District Commissioners office. It is information dissemination system designed to facilitate public to get information about various government schemes such as eligibility criteria, procedures, contact addresses, downloadable forms etc. These include issuance of certificates such as death/birth, caste, rural area etc.,licenses such as arms license, permission for conferences/rallies etc., benefits from socioeconomic schemes etc. The information about various schemes and procedures, status of an application etc. can be found through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks. 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to th How To Write a Successful Fundraising Letter palYou would not believe how many people get all the way through school and into professional positions without learning how to write a letter. I am not talking about writing a formal business letter. Even somewhat informal letters tend to baffle most people in this day of e-mails. You see, we are taught to make it as brief as possible. Using any of the niceties – even an appropriate greeting – is considered to be stilted.My friends have a website that provides advice on how to write letters, and the site has downloadable sample fundraising letters. You would not imagine how much business they get. They had some writing skills and a non-profit to promote, so they decided to build their own online business furnishing fundraising letters. When they started, their friends told them they thought that it was a complete waste of time and money. Surprisingly, their sample fundraising letters have proven enormously popular. People from businesses that should know how to hold a fundraiser – nonprofit charities from all over the country – download them nearly every day. It is as if they don't know how to ask people for money politely. It is no wonder that most nonprofits are struggling. They give away a sample fundraising letter or two at no cost to every customer, but after that they begin to charge for their services. Even if they gave away sample fundraising letters all day, many of these businesses would still turn to them for professional writing advice. I think most of us do not know where to 'begin' the process. We may make be entertained by the obsession with social niceties that the Japanese have, for example, but we don't recognize the flaws in our own culture. Sometimes I think we have no idea how to be polite to each other! In our day-to-day casual encounters, this doesn't matter as much. When holding a fundraiser , however, it can be completely crippling. If you are having trouble with ideas for writing your letters for fundraisers, I recommend that you look at a few online sample fund raising letters. The difficulty with Started by ITC’s international Business Division as a cost-effective alternative supply chain system to deal directly with the farmer to buy products for exports is getting transformed into a meta market for rural India. The tobacco giant has already set up over 700 choupals covering 3,800 villages in four states — which include Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh — dealing with products ranging from soya bean, coffee, aquaculture and wheat. 3.7 VidyaVahini This portal provides the opportunity for schools,teachers and students all across the nation to express and share their creative and academic potential via the internet. The portal aims at creating such an environment by providing facilities for content development, content deployment and collaboration. Shiksha India - a non- profit organisation - is working in partnership with the Ministry of Information Technology in the project Vidya Vahini and Ministry of Human Resources under the CLASS scheme, which aims to connect 60.000 schools (approximately 20 million students) across the country in the next five years. 3.8 Aarakshi Aarakshi is an intranet-based system for the Jaipur City Police to facilitate FIRs,criminalsrecords, vehicle thefts, missing person’s records etc. It is like a private & closed user group accessible to only authorised personnel. Its potential users are all field level officers of the city like police station, circle officers SP and even district collector. 3.9 Webciti WebCITI (Web based Citizen-IT Interface) is an e-Governance project for building citizen-IT interface for services offered by district administration at Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab. It provides web-based interface to citizens seeking services from district administration and provides complete workflow automation in District Commissioners office. It is information dissemination system designed to facilitate public to get information about various government schemes such as eligibility criteria, procedures, contact addresses, downloadable forms etc. These include issuance of certificates such as death/birth, caste, rural area etc.,licenses such as arms license, permission for conferences/rallies etc., benefits from socioeconomic schemes etc. The information about various schemes and procedures, status of an application etc. can be found through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks. 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to th A Marketing Strategy for Winners nd through the web Interface available at the intranet counters at developmental block/revenue tehsil and kiosks.A marketing strategy can either make or break your business. As you know, there are many different aspects to a good marketing strategy. You may be wondering which marketing strategy is right for you. Also, how do you know which marketing strategy really works? The best marketing strategy is the one that gains profits. In this article, we will discuss the various aspects of a great market strategy.The first marketing strategy you should look into is your website. Make sure your web design is eye catching and easy to maneuver. A marketing strategy you can add to this is to have attractive pictures or illustrations that get your customers attention. This is always an important marketing strategy.A second marketing strategy is to promote you product. Any marketing strategy will tell you to get yourself noticed. Different aspects of this marketing strategy are to send out flyers, business cards, post cards, etc.A third marketing strategy is to use an autoresponder. This automated form of a marketing strategy is commonly used. Using an autoresponder to send out advertisements of your product is fast and convenient. Everything is done by email.Another marketing strategy is to use a slogan or logo. This is a great marketing strategy because it is a way for people to easily remember your business. If they remember or recognize you, they are likely to use your website.Another powerful marketing strategy is to use an SEO (search engine optimization). Using this will attract more people to your sight. This is because when they do a search for a particular service or product, the SEO will make sure your site is listed at the top of the search results.A very important marketing strategy is to have a great price for your products or services. This marketing strategy is an absolute must. If your prices are not great, you will never have any business. Try to show people why your prices are so great to entice them to make a purchase.Finally, the last marketing strategy is to have good public relations. With good public relations, your business will prosper throu 3.10 Drishtee Drishtee is a unique socio-technological effort towards creating an Information backbone in Indian Villages. Drishtee is a public limited company providing IT enabled, fee based services to villagers through community owned kiosks. It is a platform for rural networking and marketing services for enabling e-governance, education, health and allied IT based services. The services it enables include access to government programs & benefits, market related information and private information exchanges & transactions. 4. E-GOVERNANCE IN TAMILNADU: Government has taken as a policy to promote e-governance initiative to ensure transparent, speedy and responsive delivery of government services to the citizens. E-governance initiatives were taken in major departments like Registration, Revenue, Transport, etc. The Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) is receiving a lot of thrust. The payment of utility payment service charges of TNEB, Metrowater and Chennai Corporation can be effected through the EDS centres. To promote egovernance in the Government during 2004-05, a sum of Rs.2357.52 lakhs has been provided in the State Budget under Part-II (new) schemes for 2004-05 of which Rs.1836.52 lakhs is provided under Plan schemes and Rs.521 lakhs under Non- Plan towards hardware and software for the Departments of Commercial Taxes, Registration, Treasuries & Accounts, Survey & Settlement, BC & MBC, Town and Country Planning & Adi-Dravida Welfare, etc. 4.1 Tamil Nadu e-governance Mission: As part of the increased thrust on e-governance, IT department is setting up an e-governance Directorate exclusively to work on the Policy and Planning of Information & Communication Technology initiatives of the Government and also to augment the e-Governance initiatives and projects of the Government of Tamil Nadu. As a first initiative, e-governance cell at ELCOT in the name and style of “TN e-governance Mission”, is formed which will form a part of the Directorate later. TN e-governance Mission, from its inception has been scouting around for the best e-governance practices world over for adoption in the e-governance project initiatives of the Government to provide electronic delivery of services to the citizen at a reasonable cost and for improvement of Government – Citizen Interface. The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to give a major push to its e-governance initiatives. Besides constituting panels at three different levels for implementation of National e-Governance Action Plan (NeGAP), it is also planning to appoint a consultant to conduct a study and prepare an information and communication technology (ICT) roadmap for e-governance. Besides floating a global tender for appointment of the consultant, the government has constituted a State Apex Committee (SAC) that will oversee and provide policy direction to NeGAP and ensure inter-ministerial co-ordination. There will be a State e-Governance Group (SeG) to provide overall direction, standardisation and consistency through programme management of e-governance initiatives of the state. The SAC will be headed by the Chief Secretary, with Information Technology secretary as the Chief Information Officer and the Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) as the member secretary. The SeG will have the Development Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Finance) as the chairman and the director of the to-be created directorate of e-Governance as the member secretary. The IT secretary, who will also be a member of the SeG, will have the lead role in advising the government on IT trends and also coordinating technology utilization The deputy director general of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) will also be a member of the SeG to provide technology expertise and to monitor new technologies, besides assessing their potential to use in the e-governance programme. The SeG will function as a permanent advisory body to develop and implement processes for management of programmes like conflict management, audits, knowledge management, financial management, risk management, and project planning and monitoring, besides institutionalizing e-governance processes and tools. The e-governance groups will also be set up at state government department levels, with the secretary of the department concerned as the chairman, to help the departments prepare detailed project reports, business process re-engineering, change management, financial sustainability, technology expertise and manage implementation of the project. 5. SOME OF THE IMPORTANT E-GOVERNANCE PROJECTS IN TAMILNADU: 5.1 TamilNadu InfoSystem on Land Administration and Management (Tamil NILAM): TamilNILAM is an important e-governance initiative of Government of TamilNadu. All the taluk offices in TamilNadu have been provided with computers under this programme. The major applications on these systems are, § Land Records § Old Age Pension Management § Certificates Management § Public Grievances Redressal § Personnal and Payroll system At present twenty nine taluks were provided with the touch screen for the public use. The services offered by it are, Land owners can view their own Land ownership and can also obtain a copy of Chitta Exact. Birth and Death certificate particulars can be viewed and a copy of the certificate can also be obtained. Old age pension details can also be maintained in it. The welfare Scheme of the Revenue Department are explained with the details for availing these services and the benefits. 5.2 Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration(STAR): Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration is a Citizen-centric application which has been implemented at 300 sub registrar office in TamilNadu. With the computerized system the issue of Encumbrance certificate has become quicker and easier. The documents are scanned and archived. The Data will be maintained in Tamil. The Application software was developed by NIC TamilNadu state Unit with the active involvement of the team from Registration Department. The hardware procurement and installation has been carried out by the ELCOT. 5.3 Treasury Computerization: The Treasury computerization is one of the earliest e-governance project developed for the Government of TamilNadu. Now the system is used in the following offices, § 29 District treasuries § 205 sub treasuries § 7 pay and accounts office § Pension Pay office, Chennai The Daily transaction is captured in batch mode at sub treasuries and consolidated at the district treasuries. The monthly account prepared using the system by the district treasuries, pay and accounts department are submitted to the AG’s office. 6. Conclusion: Although e-government has been around since the 1990s, many developing countries have not fully reaped its benefits because they lack the key conditions for it to thrive: · healthy political and regulatory environments, · well-developed IT infrastructure, and · a large pool of Internet users. Skeptics believe that e-government is not an appropriate tool for low-income countries with limited technical capability. But some developing countries, such as India, have successfully implemented e-government in certain areas, despite this shortcoming.
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