Total Overview of E-governance
Total Overview of E-governance
E-Governance is the backbone of every country
economic now. The country without E-Governance cannot be imagine and this
session we talked about the implementation, challenges, initiation, Future
plans and the suggestion the government that would be done of the successful
implementation of E-Governance in presence of private sector, Government
sector, NGO’s and INGO’s of our country.
There we have talked about 7 different topics
which are indispensible for the implementation of E-governance. Different
topics covered in this session are:
1. E-governance master plan
2. Empowering government to serve citizens
3. Corporate Citizenship in Nepal
4. Land ownership database
5. Transaction Security
6. Standardization of data and nomenclature for
e-governance services
7. Data Center
E-GOV master plan: (Hari Ram Koirala and
Andrew Hodges)
This session was focused with the implementation
of EGMP (E-Government Master Plan) from government level. With the rapid need
for ICT development, there should be effort from everyone in giving
contribution for it. The budgeting for ICT development has been separated but
the work has not been done according to it. The representative from Prime
Minister Office gave his presentation and gave idea about activities that
government has already conducted and future plans. He also claimed that this
year is the ICT revolution year and Swaabhimaan 2009 has added one step for
this.
In the same session Mr. Hodges gave his speech on
corporate citizenship. He explained how important CSR is for the company and
government for implementation of EGOV and how Microsoft is providing CSR in
Nepal. He also explained about the role of the Government and Company in CSR.
He made clear that company search for the project that is beneficial to the
public and their product and search for the public-private partner for its
smooth running. CSR is part of win-win approach i.e. both the company and
public will be benefited with this. Mr. Hodges gave the future planning of
Microsoft for CSR as follow:
Already Completed:
1. Software donation
2. MSDN and TechNet Portals
3. MSDN-AA 4. Student-partners
5. Student Tec Clubs
As Future Plans
1. Dream Spark
2. BizSpark
3. S2B program
Land Ownership Database (Dilli Raj
Bhandari):
The session started with saying “We don’t have
proper record of all the land information, like total land, part owned by
private sector and government too”. He gave the fact that if there is no
digital system then we won’t have become able to identify the boarder of Nepal
and India in Koshi flood area with old system but it was done using digital
system. He also repeated that government don’t have actual data regarding the
owner of the land in Koshi area so government don’t know how many actually
become the landless and how many are claiming. He gave other realistic
situation of different countries. Now, this all can be solved easily by using
digital system, i.e. by using land ownership database. He also exposed the
government progress towards this sector, its possibility, challenges. This is
another major step to be taken for the government to migrate into the
e-governance system.
Corporate Citizenship in Nepal (John T.
Cann):
In this session Mr. Cann focused on CSR (Cooperate
social Responsibility). Co-operate should be responsible to the society and
build different development project which is related to company and beneficial
to society too. This is also known as win-win approach of the business.
Inter-operability (Oliver Bell):
Inter-operability means connecting people, data and
diverse system so that performances of task become easy, fast and reliable.
Evaluation of inter-operability started from the origination PC and goes on
increasing as the technology rises from client server method to web and now
it’s being advance to seamless computing. Microsoft is also implementation this
concept of Inter-operability by providing data portability, open connection,
industry standard and open engagement. He also claimed Microsoft is the biggest
open source company.
Transaction Security (Rajan Raj
Pant):
This is another important topic to transfer into
e-governance. There are different issues regarding electronic transaction which
should be considered is discussed in this session. Disadvantage of present
system, advantage of electronic transaction, its possibility and present status
is the major topics included. Digital signature for the security purpose was
proposed from this session. Different present system ATM, VISA, SMART card are
all limited with in single bank, this should be extended by the collaboration
between different company and bank is first thing that can be implemented.
Digital Signature is the solution and most important tools for e-transaction.
We also know about how Digital Signature works, its purpose, implementation
possibility and role of private, government, NGO and INGO are discussed.
Security problem and different real incident are discussed related electronic
transaction too. Present status in world and Nepal is also compared. Planning
of the government and what should be done is also discussed. Question-answer
session of this session is also the interesting and different realistic problem
arise.
Standardization of data and nomenclature
for e-governance services: (Manoj Kumar Gupta):
From this session we know why the standardization
and nomenclature is necessary. Mr. Gupta made us clear that standardization
means maintaining certain standard while naming the different e-components. He
first gave the reasons for transferring into the e-transformation, advantages,
effect in economy limitations of present system. He then proceeds with the
definition of e-governance, ADB funds, and standardization. He claimed without
the standardization and nomenclature of the terms used we can’t proceed
successfully in this section. Question-answer session in this part is quite
interesting and different issues regarding nomenclature. We also discuss about
already nomenclature and what next should be nomenclature soon.
Data Center: (Dr. Subarna Shakya):
This session “Data Center” is one of the
interesting and interactive program through which we get information about task
done by Government improvement and future planning of government. This session
gave a large blow of questions and the questions were really nice and
implementation. He provided detail information about GICD its present
representation, status and time taken to be in this place. Explaining about
security system adopted and how it will solve present paper based task problem
of the government. He thanked the KOICA and Korea for providing help during
development and expose about promise of the KOICA after its implementation to
expand and make it secure. Sharing Challenges of GICD and Role of the IT
professional for its preservation, improvement and smooth running can’t be forgotten.
He is optimistic about GICD because the president of this organization is Prime
Ministry of the country.
(AB, RHR, PD)