[This article was published in the September 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Municipal IT India 2009 Award for ICT Enabled Municipal Initiative of the Year aims to felicitate those municipal initiatives that have used ICT tools to provide and improve services, transactions and interactions with citizens and businesses.
[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
“The e-Governance policy should be a sequel to the policy on governance reform. We should bring governance reforms in focus first and then move on to executing e-Governance to achieve those objectives.”
As Vice President of the Public Services group for SAP
[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
As the August issue of egov reaches you we will be only a few weeks away from the 5th edition of India’s Largest and most respected ICT event – eIndia. We at egov are very proud to present this landmark event again to you, in 5th consecutive year.
Maharashtra government is considering judging the yearly performance of its IAS officers on the basis of their promotion of e-Governance initiatives in the state.
The Puducherry government plans to introduce INR 70 crore e-governance project in a phased manner to ensure transparent and citizens friendly administration.
[This article was published in the July 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance projects always throws up some crucial challenges in the form of rising cost due to usage of proprietary softwares and technology, mere digitisation rather than Business Process Re-engineering, frequent transfer of IT secretaries, and lack of awareness among officials about the larger impact of e-Governance projects.
As Vice President of the Public Services group for SAP
[This article was published in the May 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The journey of e-Governance in India has not been smooth. It has seen it
