[This article was published in the November 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The introduction of the Draft National ICT Policy is giving rise to a lot of hope as well as questions as to how it will leverage the IT sector
[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Once the new legislation on e-Services for public is passed, all government departments will have to issue a framework within six months on services to be digitised and formats to be adopted, along with a cut-off date for completing the exercise
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Governments should select vendors on a more transparent basis rather than a price-based approach
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Though e-Governance has taken off in full swing, but the bigger challenge is to reach out to the remotest areas of the country
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Bringing all NeGP projects under a single monitoring authority would accelerate the pace of implementation
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In the coming years, India will have more younger population than any other country, thus literacy rate will be encouraging. Tendency towards ICT to avail Government services will, hence increase
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There is no dearth of technology but infrastructure in rural areas is not so good and hence one has to look at solutions which are more pragmatic
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Given the scale and diversity of India, we will need to continually optimise our approach based on learnings from various NeGP projects
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
It is not about procurement of hardware and software but changing the way services are delivered to and accessed by the common man
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Making broadband available is just half the task done; the other half is training and capacity building
