NISG and IBM India tie up to pursue e-governance initiatives

The National Institute of Smart Government (NISG), and IBM India have signed
a Memorandum of Understan-ding (MoU) that marks the beginning of a relationship
pro-moting e-governance at the national level.

According to the press release, the MoU represents a significant initiative
that will help India to develop different egovernment applications using open
standards and IBM’s e-governance frameworks. NISG’s mission is to deliver
bet-ter citizen services, reduce ope-ration costs, establish techno-logy
standards for application development, enhance the agility in the government in
India. Under the MoU, IBM will provide NISG with technology and services that
will enable the government to better serve individuals or organizations, and to
promote partnerships between the government and private enterprises in
imple-menting egovernance projects.

IBM will share with NISG its e-governance framework, which is based on
platform independent, open source and open standards technologies including
Linux.

"Linux is increasingly being used in the egovernment space
worldwide," said J Satyanara-yana, CEO, NISG. "Our decision to partner
with IBM underlines our vision to establish NISG as an institution of excellence
in e-governance and to leverage private sector resources thro-ugh a
Public-Private-Partner-ship mode in egovernance sp-ace in India, which will help
dr-ive greater transparency, agility, better citizen service and quality
education," he added.

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