South Asia summit on e-Governance in Capital from Oct 26

New Delhi, Oct 9: More than 200 experts from India and abroad will take part in a three-day international meet on e-Governance Summit "e-GovWorld 2006" to begin in the Capital from October 26.

The summit will feature discussion of e-Government cooperation mechanisms, pro-poor e-Governance strategies and mobile governance in developing nations from South Asia region.

Convenor of the summit Vikas Kanungo said ''As more and more countries in Asia have begun charting and implementing their national e-Governance plans, there is felt a strong need to cooperate with other nations and replicate good projects for success thus necessitating the need for institutional mechanisms for cooperation among countries. This is the predominant issue that will be discussed by the representatives from South Asia, Europe, Africa and US during a three day South Asia e-Governance Summit''.

Prominent experts The World Bank, Chief Economic Advisor Shekhar Shah, Government of India Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and UN resident coordinator Maxine Olson have confirmed their participation in the keynote session of the summit. Other presenters at e-GovWorld 2006 include Mary Ann Fisher from IBM USA, Danese Cooper from Intel USA, Shahid Akhtar from UNDP-APDIP, Neelam Dhawan from Microsoft India and Jeremy Millard from Danish Technological Institute among many other speakers.

The summit being organized by the Society for Promotion of e-Governance is co hosted by UNDP-APDIP, Danish Technological Institute and Tetra Information Services and supported by Department of Information Technology, Government of India, NIC Government of India and the World Bank.

UNI