Archive for the ‘government’ Category

Which online ad platform should Indian Postal service buy?

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

An interesting read on WSJ, the German state owned postal service Deutsche Post AG has acquired nugg.ad AG, Europe’s largest targeted online ad platform. Deutsche Post delivers about 70 million letters a day will start selling online advertising. I had never imagined a postal service could move into online ad ...

Commonwealth Games, uncommon expenditure

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Commonwealth Games which is scheduled to be held in October 2010 has been in the news for all wrong reasons :-(

Political online ads to be made accountable in US

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

In 2009, politicians in India "flirted" with the internet during the general elections. Except for Shashi Tharoor nobody is notably active on the internet.

Bangalore Property Tax Online Payment, thumbs up

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Last year (2009) India's silicon capital, garden city, I mean Bangalore (very few trees remaining) started accepting property tax on the internet. Delhi launched a similar effort well before Bangalore.

An analysis of Government websites in India

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Today's Mumbai edition of Times of India (Sept 6, 2009) carried an article by @Mahafreed titled "We are under construction" - very appropriately reflecting the state of Govt websites in India. The article mentions my views about this topic.