Oracle partners with Tamil Nadu in its e-governance drive; signs MoU with ELCOT

Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (ELCOT) and Oracle India Pvt Ltd
(Oracle India) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). As per the MoU,
Oracle will be a partner of Tamil Nadu gover-nment in its e-government
initiatives. ELCOT is the optional nodal agency under IT department of Gov-ernment
of Tamil Nadu for implementation of e-go-vernance projects and initiatives.

At the time of signing the MoU, Vivek Harinarain, Gove-rnment Secretary and
Chair-man, ELCOT said, "As an ongoing initiative of the Tamil Nadu
government to deploy IT for streamlining operations and optimizing the use of
government resources, ELCOT has chosen to partner with Oracle. We lay particular
emphasis on security, opera-tions continuity, availability, scalability and
lowering total cost of ownership."

"Governments are transfor-ming themselves to meet incre-asing public
demands, legisla-tive mandates, and economic and political pressures to be more
responsive, efficient and accountable," said Shekhar Dasgupta, MD, Oracle
India. "Our relationship with ELCOT will give us the opportunity to use
Oracle technology and applications in providing world-class e-governance
solutions to Tamil Nadu," he added.

Oracle recently launched the Oracle-HP e-governance Center for Excellence in
India. The center will provide a platform for the develop-ment of model
e-governance applications, showcasing e-governance applications that are
currently being used by various government agen-cies in India as well as
e-governance applications by Oracle, HP and their partners.

CyberMedia News Service

Chennai