Cisco signs e-Governance pact in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Global networking giant Cisco today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd, a company in the filed of e-Governance services.

The purpose of the MoU is to make education and healthcare solutions available and to promote social inclusion through CSCs across India, Cisco said in a media release.

The MoU was signed by Shankar Aggarwal, CEO, CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd, and Naresh Wadhwa, president and country manager, Cisco India, in the presence of John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco, who is on an India visit.

Wim Elfrink, chief globalisation officer and executive vice president, Cisco Services; R.Chandrashekhar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of India, and S. R. Rao, additional secretary, Department of Information Technology, were also present on the occasion.

The Common Service Centres program is a strategic cornerstone of the government of India’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) with 250,000 CSCs planned across 600,000 villages. The CSCs have the potential to offer Web-enabled e-governance services in rural areas as well as to provide high-quality and cost-effective video, voice and data content and services in areas such as education, health and entertainment, the release added.

By working collaboratively toward a common vision of Smart+Connected Communities, Cisco and CSC e-Governance Services India intend to make the technology platform available to CSCs to deliver transformational education and health care solutions to citizens across India.

Cisco said it has worked with governments and communities around the world on delivering its vision for Smart+Connected Communities and believes that the delivery of high-quality services to rural areas can help India produce more inclusive and balanced growth.

The education services will use the Cisco Remote Education Centre, an education platform hosted in the cloud with the ability to support 30,000 simultaneous classes.

Cisco CEO John Chambers said collaborative technologies, powered by ubiquitous broadband access, will not only enable access to high-quality education and healthcare services but also help drive the next phase of economic growth for our future.

“Education and health care are fundamentally collaborative, interactive endeavors, critical to the success of future generations. It’s an honor to collaborate with the Department of Information Technology and help deliver transformational education and health care services to the citizens of India. We believe communities, cities, countries and individual lives can be transformed by providing access to socially, economically and environmentally sustainable solutions,” he added.

R Chandrashekhar, secretary, Department of IT and Chairman, CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd, said this innovative technology platform would bring high-quality health care and education services to villagers across India.

“It’s very encouraging to see how two private sector companies are collaboratively building on the government’s substantial investment in IT infrastructure and bringing services to the common man through the Common Service Centres,” he said.

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