Digital Empowerment : A Cornerstone for eGovernance

Digital Empowerment - a word that implies a digital world - where population is digitally literate; adequate Digital Infrastructure and availability/accessibility to everyone assured; Universal digital literacy exists; resources are digitally available and accessible in local languages; Mutual digital stages for participative governance and transferability of entitlements for individuals, happening through the Cloud. This book “Digital Empowerment -a cornerstone for eGovernance” presents the Indian Government authorities hard work, determination, continuity, experience and knowledge sharing of their achievements of transformation from Digital India to Digitally Empowered India. Embracing the select ‘e’ and ‘m’ Governance projects, the book provides a platform to the CSI Nihilent eGovernance Awards (CNeGA) 2017 participants to share their experiences, as well as enabling them to put their contributions to make the country Digitally Empowered. The projects present an insight of critical success factors to gain the set targets of the project, categorized further in result and enablers indicators. The projects on ‘e’ and ‘m’ Governance initiatives are associated with Infrastructure, Scholarship, Women Empowerment and Safety, Mid-day meal, General Administration, Transportation, Health, Payment, Electricity services, Grievance redressal, Human Resourses and Financial services etc. For eGovernance practitioners, canvassers and professionals, compendium published under the series 'Selected e-Governance Initiatives' by Computer Society of India's Special Interest Group on eGovernance (CSI-SIGeGov) persist to endow with a rich source of information for discerned readers. Contents: 1. Invited Articles, 2. State Initiatives, 3. ICT Interventions in Theme Category – Safety of Women in Public Spaces 4. eGovernance Projects 5. Sustenance Category About the Editors: K. S. Vijaya Sekhar holds Ph.D. in Public Administration with a specialization in eGovernance. His interest areas are eGovernance, Mobile Governance, Use of Innovative Technologies to reach out the last mile challenges and, Inter-disciplinaryapproach while using the ICT applications. He has Master of Commerce (M.Com),Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A), Master of Business Management(M.B.A) in Human Resource Management (H.R.M) and Master of Social Work(M.S.W) to his credit. He has published over 30 research papers in International and National conferences.He is recipient of Best Paper Award for Measuring Sustainability in eGovernmentProjects. He has Co-edited Four books - eGovernance Initiatives in India;Envisioning Digital India; Digital India in Action and, Digital Transformation. He hasabout 25 years of professional experience and presently working in Research Centerfor eGovernance (RCeG) at IIIT Hyderabad. He was associated with Center forEconomic and Social Studies (CESS), Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI)and ICRISAT, in the past. He is Secretary to Computer Society of India’s (CSI) Special Interest Group oneGovernance (CSI-SIGeGov) from its inception – the year 2007 and Member, CSINihilent eGovernance Awards (CNeGA) since its very inception, the year 2002. He ispresently, Convener to the CSI Nihilent eGovernance Awards 2017. He is a Lifemember of CSI. In 2012, he had received CSI Service Award for his significantcontribution to eGovernance at National Level. He received the award during 47thCSI Annual National Convention held at Science City, Kolkata.e-mail : [email protected]. G. P. Sahu is Associate Professor and Head, School of Management Studies,Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. He has more than19 years of teaching and research experience. He completed his one-yearPost-Doctoral Fellowship program from California State University Monterey Bay,California, US and PhD in Management from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,India. His research interests are in the areas of MIS, E-governance, GreenInformation Systems, etc. He has published around 90 research papers in internationaljournals and conferences. He has coordinated a few international conferences. He hasalso edited seven books in the area of MIS and E-governance. He has acted as areviewer for international journals. He is also a Guest Editor with InternationalJournal of Electronic Governance. He has been on the jury for the CSI-NihilentE- governance National Awards, India. Prabhu Gollamudi, has extensive experience in the IT Industry, working formost part of his career with the IT major and closely worked on several e-governanceprojects, from concept to implementation. He had also worked on system integrationprojects in the sectors of transportation, power, public administration and defence.During this journey, he had the opportunity to interact with several Governmentofficials at various levels that enabled him to understand the Government processes for implementing e-Governance projects. His stint as Vice President (BusinessDevelopment) for CMC Informatics UK, provided exposure to business managementand projects delivery from a global perspective. Post superannuation, he continued his professional engagements with erstwhile CMCLtd, NISG and later with Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd,Bengaluru. Currently a freelance consultant, his interests include helpingorganizations in articulating processes for Government bids qualification,management and participation. A key member of the Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group one-Governance, he has supported many of its professional activities. He holds aMaster’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Government Engineering College,Jabalpur. E-mail [email protected].