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Happy New Year 2009; Oodami Restarted
Its being a long time since I have written something for Oodami. My friends who know about this blog ask me whats up with Oodami. I always replied saying that I will be reviving it. I was really busy with my day job and I wasn’t able to continue writing at night. Apart from that I was working on a stealth blog which is going in a good way.
First Indian Blogger to break into Techmeme LeaderBoard
Yuvi a 17 year old wannable geek from India claims to be the first Indian Blogger to get listed in the Techmeme top 100 Leader Board. Yuvi is a stat freak and maintains a stat blog named TheStatBot. Yuvi plans to bring out intersting stats about web communities and bloggers.
UN E-Governance readiness list, India is 113th
Despite all its efforts, India has slipped in its E-Governance ranking from 87 (in 2005) to 113 (in 2007). This is based on the UN E-Governance readiness list. India has developed a comprehensive national portal that promotes e-governance as important national policy and strategy. India is one of the 10 countries which uses emails to communicate with citizens. Pakistan has improved its rank from 136 to 131. While Bangladesh has improved its rank from 162 to 141.
Educational sector gets a boost from budget
Compared to previous year, there is a 20% increase in the budget allocation for education. This proves that the government is still committed to improve the educational system of the country. Budget carried more importance to provide elementary and high school education to all children. There are plans to open many higher education institutes throughout the country. All the knowledge institutes will be inter-connected through an electronic digital broadband network
Hello world! First Post in Oodami
We did not want to delete this post as it indicates the spirit of starting something. When we first learn a new programming language, for example, ‘Hello World’ is the first program for most of us. Welcome to Oodami.com