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There is a need for transformation from traditional governance to e-governance. The present research is an effort to evolve the shared vision of three categories of stakeholders, viz. citizens, politicians and administrators, and academicians and practitioners about factors comprising of good governance in the Indian context through "Participatory Stakeholder Assessment." It also tries to find out whether the new information and communication technologies can make a significant contribution to the achievement of the objective of good governance. The study has also attempted to identify and establish linkages between the factors responsible for creating a conducive environment for effective and successful implementation of e-governance for achieving good governance. An effort has been made to identify the possible barriers in the implementation of e-governance applications. Finally, the study suggests a meaningful framework for e-governance map for enhancing good governance.
e-governance originated in India during the late seventies with a focus on applications in the areas of defense, economic monitoring, and planning. The efforts of the National Informatics Center (NIC) during the eighties to connect all the district headquarters from 1988 was a watershed. From the early nineties, e-governance has seen the use of IT for wider sectoral applications with policy emphasis on reaching out to rural areas and taking in greater inputs from NGOs and private sector as well. The Internet, in particular, creates an opening for new forms of interaction with the citizen that allows real-time participation in the governmental and democratic process. But as with e-business, once the opening is created and the tools are at hand, it is not so much a matter of choice as a matter of time. Customers and citizens expect governments to get with it; if they do not, they risk becoming irrelevant (TapscottandAgnew, 1996).
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e-governance is the use of emerging information and communication technologies to facilitate the processes of government and public administration, e-governance is providing citizens with the ability to choose the manner in which they wish to interact with their governments. It is about the choices governments make about how information and communication technologies will be deployed to support citizen choices.
e-governance is the use of emerging information and communication technologies to facilitate the processes of government and public administration, e-governance is providing...