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Rahul is the Assistant Editor at FutureGov where he covers physical and information security issues, as well as general public sector modernisation across the region.
Previously Rahul was a digital media lecturer, responsible for e-learning. He also managed IT procurement at a government statutory board in Singapore.
Born in India, Rahul migrated to Singapore where he is now based, and was a scholar at the University of Southern California where he studied Computer Science. He shares with Jianggan a love of the obscure, particularly dead languages, and as a keen photographer his work has been featured in salons internationally.
9 May 2012 | News
Dubai improves mobile payment gateway
New features such as auto-payments have been added to Dubai eGovernment’s mobile payment gateway, making it easier to pay government fees or charges.
9 May 2012 | News
Canada reveals open govt action plan
The Canadian government has announced a new Open Government Action Plan, which will build on the achievements to date and push forward in three areas: Open Data, Open Information and Open Dialogue.
9 May 2012 | News
UK audit confirms progress in open govt agenda
A new report from UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) says that the progress in UK’s open government agenda has been good. It has achieved some noteworthy results; for instance, at the end of last year, the police crime map web site had recorded 47 million visits, and the Department of Education had seen an 84 per cent increase in annual use of comparative school data.
12 April 2012 | News
More than 10,000 schools in India to adopt cloud
All India Council for Technical Education will deploy cloud applications for its 7 million students and nearly 500,000 faculty members.
9 February 2012 | News
Dubai launches online direct debit for govt payments
Dubai eGovernment Department has launched a virtual account for making government payments online, in collaboration with Commercial Bank of Dubai.
8 February 2012 | News
Indian City Police undergo ICT training to track criminals
In a pilot scheme, 20 policemen from Kozhikode, in the state of Kerala, are undergoing ICT training in the state’s Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS). The training consists of training police officers in creating databases and collecting biometric data of criminals.
26 January 2012 | News
Indian State Inaugurates US$4.5 Million Data Centre
Kerala, a state in Southern India, has launched its second government data centre at the cost of 22.5 Crore Rupees (US$4.5 million) to enable government agencies within the state to offer new services.
18 January 2012 | News
Indian state extends local e-service delivery
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to extend its ‘e-District’ project, successfully piloted in six districts, to the remaining 26 districts.
18 January 2012 | News
Thailand Opens 20,000 Free Wifi Spots in Bangkok
In an effort to bridge the digital divide, the Thai Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has introduced 20,000 free wifi hotspots in Bangkok. The project is a collaboration with Thai telecom companies and is the government’s new-year gift to its people.
17 January 2012 | News
Vivek Kundra joins Salesforce.com
Former US federal government CIO will be in charge of driving social, mobile and open cloud technologies for emerging markets
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