Indrajit Basu

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Indrajit Basu is an international correspondent for Government Technology's Digital Communities.

Recent Articles

Defiant India Pushes Ahead with Nuke Power

March 22, 2011 - "How does the country meet its enormous power needs when it is so short of natural resources?"

ITU Deploys Emergency Communication to Japan

March 17, 2011 - ITU deployed 78 Thuraya satellite phones equipped with GPS to facilitate search and rescue efforts, 13 Iridium satellite phones and 37 Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network terminals.

Bangladesh Combats “Triple Illiteracy” with Bicycle-Riding Infoladies

March 07, 2011 - "The InfoLady acts as the human interface between a knowledge-base and the rural illiterate and print-disabled people."

National Information Utilities for the Indian Government?

February 23, 2011 - Each NIU would be treated as an independent entity -- just like a separate back office company -- which will have its set of employees.

Infosys Takes a Detour to Tap U.S. Public-Sector Outsourcing

February 08, 2011 - An Indian IT outsourcing service provider addresses government-sector IT contracts by buying local IT companies.

Virtual School Promotes Sustainability in Zimbabwe

January 26, 2011 - "My vision was to create a society that consciously works for continued improvement of their environment and I am working towards that."

Singapore's EGovernment Goes Mobile

January 20, 2011 - While the U.S. and UK-are still taking baby steps in crafting mobile e-government strategies, Singapore is leaping ahead.

Software Aids Police in Nabbing Suspected Criminals

January 12, 2011 - Predictive analytics applications can uncover unexpected patterns and trends and can even develop models to guide actions from billions of historical records.

Long Arm of the Law Gets Longer With Social Networking

December 23, 2010 - "We started getting numerous photographs from users complaining about traffic violations and suddenly we were nabbing many more errant and unruly drivers far easily."

Microblogging: The New Technology Tool for Chinese Authorities

December 20, 2010 - The Information Office of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, acknowledged that in a wide variety of ways the Internet has become the voice of its people and resolved to protect the right to freedom of speech on the Internet.

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