How can we use data warehousing and data mining to prepare the government for the challenges of the new millennium? Discuss.

 Practically all world economies have recognized the importance of information technology in catalyzing economic activity and efficient governance. In this direction, countries have benefited through eGovernance which consequently has emerged as a technologically driven methodology to realize economic prosperity leading to transparency, providing information speedily to all citizens, improving administrative efficiency, improving public services, the higher velocity of business, improved productivity, and an exciting business opportunity. With many applications in place, large quantities of data have been collected over a period of years. Private organizations recognized that there is value in the historical data of their own organizations and have undertaken projects to build data warehouses to make the data accessible in a meaningful and timely manner through data mining and querying tools. But in Government organizations, it is not so. Data warehousing and data mining are important means of preparing the government to face the challenges of the new millennium. Data Warehousing and data mining technologies have extensive potential applications in the government – in various Central Government sectors such as Agriculture, Rural Development, Health, and Energy and also in State Government activities.