Information technology (IT) was born in educational institutions but grew into the practice of IT governance, directly impacting the corporate world across core areas such as responsibility, strategy, acquisition (of IT resources), performance, conformance and human behaviour, which form the cornerstone of the corporate governance of IT. Today, e-Governance is meant to provide the common…
State information commissioner (SIC) P Vijaya Babu has said that though the government is laying stress on e-governance for transparency and accountability, it has failed to upgrade the state-owned websites. “How can people be assured of good e-governance in such a situation?” he has questioned.
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More than Rs. 27,000 crore are lying as inoperative funds with the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and the beneficiary workers would be identified and the amounts refunded, Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya said here on Sunday. Speaking to presspersons after visiting Nacharam ESI Hospital here, Mr. Dattatreya said these amounts were languishing…
A series of new orders and proposals suggests that Thailand’s military government has taken further steps to monitor and censor online content in continued efforts to curtail criticism of itself and the country’s monarchy. Ever since the coup of May 22, 2014, the military junta has tightened its grip on the media byputting it under…
CEO of CSK, Sanjay Srivastava (IG Police, IPS) enlightened the crowd about the working and formation of CSK and how the police force was preparing itself to fight cyber crime and to secure the citizens of Gujarat in the digital world. He also stated that Gujarat is the only state in India to initiate such…
Information technology (IT) was born in educational institutions but grew into the practice of IT governance, directly impacting the corporate world across core areas such as responsibility, strategy, acquisition (of IT resources), performance, conformance and human behaviour, which form the cornerstone of the corporate governance of IT. Today, e-Governance is meant to provide the common…
President Barack Obama will spend most of the coming week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in his annual State of the Union policy address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and cybersecurity, the White House says. Traditionally, the White House closely guards proposals to be offered in the State of the Union…
Australia’s second largest net provider iiNet said it had turned the servers off “as a precautionary measure” as the city experienced temperatures topping 44.4C. It left thousands of customers offline for about six-and-a-half hours. Many of them later took to Twitter to vent their frustration and question why the meltdown occurred. “Our Perth data centre…
In 2014, the cyber-crime cell (CCC) of the Goa police traced and detected 346 fake profiles and objectionable postings on various social media sites. CCC registered around 25 cases since its inspection as a police station in November 2014 and dealt with 146 e-commerce fraud cases which prevented a loss of 12 lakh.
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Widely known as the “Father of the Internet”, Vinton G. Cerf co-designed with Robert Kahn the protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. Currently, he serves as chief Internet evangelist atGoogle Inc. He was in New Delhi on Tuesday to talk at an event organized by industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry on innovation, jobs, the…