e-Governance Initiatives in
Class Roll# 545
Exam Roll # 000484
Department
of Business Administration,
Executive
Summary: New information and communication technologies can make a
significant contribution to the achievement of good governance goals. This 'e-governance' can make governance more
efficient and more effective, and bring other benefits too. Paper demonstrates the corruptions and
week governance in
e-Governance project selection and evaluation is a very crucial for success in establishing good governance, three models were proposed in selecting projects and evaluating their performance. Small and strong controllable projects are recommended as e-Governance initiatives which would be a part of bigger picture of e-Governance.
Finally e-Governance is analyzed with concept of business management, some new look has been given in re-invention process of societal information system with scope to formulate e-governance strategy by any government.
Table of contents
2.0
Formulation of Research Problem
6.1
Definition of e-Governance
6.2
Interactions in e-governance
6.4
Business perspectives in e-Governance.
7.0
Environmental and situational analysis and its results
7.1
Regulatory framework/harmonization
7.3
Re-thinking of government system
7.3.1
Citizen/business participation
7.3.2
Government’s Operation to support participation
8.0
e-Governance Strategy formulation for good governance
8.1
Strategic dimensions and Focus
8.2.
A New Model of e-Governance
8.4.1
General Preference Model
8.4.2
D. Priority Ranking Model
8.5
Methods for implementing of e-Governance project.
8.6
Analytical framework for assessing of e-Governance initiatives.
9.0
Recommendations and implementation strategies
“As a developing country
___ Fifth Five year
Plan, Planning Commission
Since independence in 1971, the economic development of
Accountability, transparency, decentralization,
administrative reform, and satisfaction of public service by its clients are key
problem areas in the present governance system in
The majorities understanding of e-governance is electronic
delivery of government services to the people whereas the potential for
e-governance is beyond electronic delivery of government services to the
people. This problem in conceptualization of e-government effect the action
plans to harvest benefits. Again the conception in the wrong direction
contributes time and resource lost for a developing country like
In this research, E-Governance means its real sense is the
use of information and communication technologies to support good governance.
It moves beyond old 'IT in government[4]. The
areas of e-administration, e-citizen and e-services initiatives, and the
government-related components of e-society together represent a Networked
Government model for e-governance, the overall aim of which is to more
effectively utilize ICTs (Information Communication Technology) for good
governance reforms. These new connections strengthen existing relationships and
build new partnerships within the civil society. Moreover there is not enough
local academic research initiatives to frame this new reality associated with
economic development of this country. In this research the topic is entitled as
“ e-Governance initiatives in
This research is primarily deals with missing points in strategy formulation for re-invention of e-governances which are also objectives of this research. In strategy formulation three following objectives are expected to incorporate:
The empirical tools usually play the central role at the early stage of the design of an e-Governance assessment, evaluation as well as formulate strategies. However, these tools are only one of the dimensions that should be taken into account. The implementation process, in its various components, is another important dimension along which governance assessment can vary and serve different purposes. In particular, brief reviews of research were studied for preparation of this paper including government publications, international public administration journals, books, periodicals and long list of web sites.
Widespread poverty in
“A competent and motivated public
administration system is central to achieving the poverty reduction and
development goals of the strategy. The Government would establish the office of
the Ombudsman and establish an independent Anti-Corruption Commission along
with measures to expedite investigation procedures to ensure better governance”.
It is a matter of regret that all of our plans and programs, election mandates, motto of political parties sounds good and affects nothing. Lack of leadership, incentives and motivation to work, level of knowledge and understanding, poor education system as well as our long suffering poor socio-economic conditions, often creates obstacles in performing own task. We love to talk much rather demonstrating implementation of a certain task. This gap between planning and actions holds us behind the race in this 21st century.
One of the most recent inspiring news is the government’s
action plan in formulating strategy for ensuring good governance through Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) which have a valuable potential to help
meet good governance goals in developing countries. With leading by Prime
Minister, 60 members team attended the World Summit on Information Society
(WSIS) at
“Our common desire and commitment to build a
people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where
everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge,
enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential
in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life,
premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
Bangladesh is ideally is stepping into building information society and going for introducing electronic governance which offers an opportunity for governments to get closer to the citizen and to build a partnership with diverse communities of interest, practice, expertise, conviction, and inter-dependence[7].
Several dimension and related factor influenced the
definition of e-Governance. Most of researcher defined e-Governance based on
their understanding. Dr. Richard Heeks (2001) defined e-governance is “the use of information and communication
technologies to support good governance.
It moves beyond old 'IT in government' models thanks to the new digital
connections that ICTs permit. These new
connections strengthen existing relationships and build new partnerships within
civil society. e-Governance therefore embraces e-Government, e-Citizen and
e-Business. The action, purpose and relatedness were absence in this definition
which is very cleverly defined in the Professor Relies definition of
e-Governance, he defined e-Governance “an opportunity for governments to get closer to
the citizen and to build a partnership with diverse communities of interest,
practice, expertise, conviction, and inter-dependence.
In this definition management
perspectives are not present. I would emphasis here to redefine the definition
of e-Governance in a management perspective:
the "electronic management of the
state", namely the utilization of information and communication
technologies (ICT), including Internet technologies, in the work of country or state
bodies[8]
The three main target groups that can be distinguished in e-governance concepts are government, citizens and businesses. Abbreviations such as B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) are used, like in e-commerce concepts, to shortly describe which of the main groups are interacting. The most common interactions in e-governance, G2C, G2B and G2G, are presented schematically in Figure 1.
Citizen Business NGOs Central Gov. Local Gov. G2G G2G G2C G2B G2G Government
B Citizen Business NGOs Central Gov. Local Gov. G2G G2G G2C G2B G2G Government
A Inter
government