Rural Service Delivery exhibition begins in Delhi
March 24th, 2011 - 9:50 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Mar. 24 (ANI): A two-day national conference and exhibition on technology solutions for rural service delivery began here this morning.
Inaugurating the conference, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal said that benefits of information communication technology (ICT) must reach villages, including the remote and far flung areas.
Innovative technologies need to be found which are rugged to sustain the problems of electricity and rough use, Sibal added.
Speaking on the occasion, R Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology And Telecommunications, said that the uniqueness of rural service delivery would be in solving the problems of data in digital form at the originating source of information.
Welcoming the participants, Dr. B. K Gairola, Director General National Informatics Centre, said the gap between the common man and system structure has to be bridged to be effective. The saturation point will come only when a desired level service will be delivered to the common man.
The conference will have four sessions excluding inaugural and closing sessions. It will deliberate on issues like user perspective of rural service delivery; issues and challenges; enabling rural service delivery through technology solutions; panel discussion etc.
The conference will provide a platform of meaningful interaction among all stakeholders to deliberate, interact and recommend an actionable strategy for good governance and to improve the standard of services rendered to the common man.
It will also help in understanding the existing scenario and challenges faced in rural services delivery. (ANI)
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