Notes for BSc CSIT

 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 import...

#Torwards Good Governance through E-Governance  The digital governance models bring about a transformation in the existing forms of governance as they change the nature of citizen-governance relationships and bring in new agents and mechanisms to influence the governance processes. They foster democratic control over the government's economic, social, and welfare policies by citizens and civil society organizations- a key process required for and responsive governance.              The changes brought about in the citizen-governance relationship through digital governance are fourfold: 1. They open up avenues for the flow of information both vertically and laterally to encompass a wider foundation of civil society. A greater density of information flow is achieved between government and civil society, or within civil society itself. The right to voice and expression gets gradually embedded among citizens through means. 2. Information becomes dif...

 Key focus areas: Key focus areas (KFA) indicate the areas that need to be focused on by an organization and are a set of related activities when performed collectively, help to achieve a particular level of maturity. KFA is defined from level 3(Planned) onwards, as this is the stage from where the e-governance effort is systematically attempted. Planned: Define a quantifiable vision for the e-governance exercise. Conduct a needs assessment survey in view of objectives covering the following areas :-           - Survey of requirements both within and outside the organization.           - Analyze the requirement to identify priority areas for initiating e-governance exercises.           - Assess the extent of e-readiness for identified areas and requirements to achieve the desired level of e-readiness.  Prepare an extensive plan on e-governance that includes the following areas :-       ...

  Level 4-Realized After strategy formulation in the last stage, we will have implementation and assessment in this stage.  So, according to strategies, an action plan with budget and time will be defined. Then required actions are implemented and finally, their results would be measured and controlled. Gap analysis is a good methodology for assessing results. a) Retrospected At this level, the organization has retrospectively studied its business process in view of its vision, overall e-governance objectives the series-oriened approach(wherein the government  is expected to effectively deliver the services to its customer/user), and changes if required, in the process are an as constantly evolutionary process b) E-ready In this stage, e- readiness essentials. which are also the building blocks for governance that are ensured by the organization. c)Partially open At this stage, some of the e-governance services are operationalized resulting in partial information exchange...

E-Governance  It is a part of e-Government. E-Governance is dealing with all regulations and policies to control the services provided by the e-Government. However, the E-Government is an electronic government, which should be regulated by the E-Governance. Moreover, e-Governance refers to the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) for providing government services, disseminating information, communication operations with the general public. E-governance is the public sector's use of information and communication technology with the aim of:- Improving information and service delivery; Encouraging citizens participation in the decision-making process; and Making government more accountable, transparent and effective. ; E-governance is the public sector's use of information and communication technology with the aim of: Need of e-governance E-governance is a fundamental and important aspect in developing countries like ours. The main motive of E-governance i...