These measures could be paid for by cancelling Labour's wasteful and reactionary expenditure of more than £100bn on new Trident nuclear missiles, ID cards, two super aircraft carriers, the botched computerisation of the NHS and further motorway expansion.
In recent decades, for example, computerisation and automation have displaced "middle-skilled" workers at the same time as employment among high- and low-skilled workers has increased.
The failure of government computerisation projects is so routine that it no longer excites much comment.
He holds video conferences with his bureaucrats early every morning.Admirers say rural computerisation will improve the administration and enable villagers to get information, forms and documents without paying bribes to petty bureaucrats.
Forrester Research, another consultancy, warns of global economic consequences: stockmarkets in the West, where decades of computerisation have left the worst problems, could slump as firms suffer, while emerging economies laugh all the way to the bank, largely bug-free.Even firms that can fix their problems in time will pay a heavy financial penalty, these consultancies say.
Mr Naidu assured them that not a single government job would be cut by computerisation.
But critics say it is silly to push for computerisation when rural electricity is scarce and erratic, and illiteracy is high.In this section A war the voters forgot Who will rescue East Timor?
But so long were the lines caused by the computerisation of the Passport Agency last summer that ministers spent £16,000 on luncheon vouchers and £13,000 on umbrellas to assuage the anger of its citizens waiting for hours in the rain.The chaos at the Passport Agency is just one of several recent foul-ups in government computerisation projects.
But the model started to get into trouble in the 1970s, thanks first to deteriorating industrial relations and then to globalisation and computerisation.
Enchanted by the potential of computerisation, Mr Pouzin moved to Bull, IBM's French competitor.
Filipinos are fervently hoping that the computerisation of the vote-counting in May's presidential, congressional and local elections will solve the problem.
