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Wednesday, Sep 15, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

PC-cum-television to undergo trials soon

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 14. The State Government will shortly try out the "PCTVT," a multi-functional device, which combines the functions of a personal computer as also a television set, as part of the Rs.700 crores broadband project, according to P.Raghuveer, Additional Secretary, Information Technology, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

The PCTVT is a project of Raji Reddy of Carnegie Melon University partnering the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT, Hyderabad), and the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai), with a Korean company set to manufacture them.

Wide interest

Participating in a discussion on "Simplifying eGovernance-It it possible?," organised jointly by Canon India, Adobe Systems, and StorageTek India here on Tuesday, Mr.Raghuveer said 25 companies had evinced interest in the proposed broadband project to be implemented under the public private partnership (PPP) policy. On e-governance, he said the State Government was at the third stage of electronic delivery ie-transaction (other two being information and interaction).

Some of the critical issues faced by e-governance programmes were connectivity, access devices and e-literacy, he said referring to hurdles. Economical and multipurpose access devices should be made available, he said. To the businessmen, he pointed out that e-governance provides a lot of business opportunities.

Mr. Narayana Rao of Canon, Mr. S. Angiah representing Adobe, and Mr.Vijay Pradhan of StorageTek, highlighted the roles played by their respective companies in implementing e-governance, from conversion of legacy data to storage and movement of documents.

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