A good issue indeed.... The cheapest, rough-and-read 'website' anyone can create is a blog. Sites like wordpress.com offer a huge 3GB of free space. For free. So costs should not be an excuse anymore.
The NIC (National Informatics Centre, GoI) has its offices at Porvorim, and they're only too ready to help in any effort at creating connectivity. When we, as journos, approached them over a decade ago, they were more than happy at offering us Net tutorials and the like. Copied to Archana Nagvenkar, a helpful engineer at NIC. The problem is not technology or costs. The issue is that institutions of power are unlikely to share the information and knowledge they're sitting on, on which their power is based, and which could lead them to being questioned. In my view, we should not wait for the panchayats to do things. Every village and city ward should set up their own presence in cyberspace, either on a blog, electronic mailing-list or even a Facebook page. Since we're not dealing with state secrecy here, the main concern should be spreading the word. FN On 12 November 2013 10:28, augusto pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > Ashley Delaney brought this to my attention: "the Govt of India has banned > the use of FREE email accounts, and therefore they can use only accounts > provided to them by NIC. FYI - however the NIC till date has not provided > any local panchayats with email address. This is strange given that with > the goa broadband network is in place and each panachyat being linked via > high speed to the Internet, why this has not yet taken place!" > -- > > > Augusto Pinto > 40, Novo Portugal > Moira, Bardez > Goa, India > E [email protected] > P 0832-2470336 > M 9881126350 > -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: The View From My Window http://wp.me/1c1F About.me: http://about.me/noronhafrederick Goa,1556: http://bit.ly/Goa1556Books2
