'The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in India has begun to share with citizens a large amount of information related to corruption. The CVC website has published the names of officers from the elite administrative and revenue services against whom investigations have been ordered or penalties imposed for corruption. Newsweek magazine carried an article about this effort, calling it E-shame.'

"A number of guiding principles for e-government have appeared in recent years. They can be broadly classified into two categories: (i) recommendatory, and (ii) prescriptive. The recommendatory guidelines are comprehensive and useful guidelines but not binding on stakeholders. The prescriptive guidelines, which are binding, again can be grouped into two categories: statutory and executive. There are then sector-specific guiding principles. This paper attempts to lay down Ten Guiding Principles f more...

Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, has come out with a Draft Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance. The policy is open for public review / comments.

The draft policy attempts to tackle difficult issues like vendor lock-in and attempts to provide a level playing field for all. It makes special provision for encouraging open standard work in Indian languages. It also lays down certain guiding principles for selec more...

The World Public Sector Report, one of UNDESA’s Flagship Reports, aims to capture the emerging issues, concerns and innovations in governance and public administration, especially those that contribute to the realization of the UN Development Agenda including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The World Public Sector Report is intended for policy makers, practitioners and civil society, particularly in developing countries and transition economies. Several annual reports are available on more...

Very few words are more fanciful than the words electronic governance (e-governance). These words have a tendency to portray an image of all advanced Nation or capable manpower. But the bigger question is what is more important; the image or reality? We have to analyse this question in the light of e-governance in India and the efforts of Government of India to achieve the Herculean task of being an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled and capable Nation.

This is the second part of a four-part series on Conceptual Foundations of E-government. This paper deals with the relationship of e-government with networked society and mobile networked society, distinguishes between e-government and deep e-government, governance and government, and poor governance, governance and good governance. It proposes the concept of the poor-good e-government continuum and takes note of emerging centralization-decentralization paradox in e-government. The paper conclud more...

This is the first part of a four part contribution under the title: Conceptual Foundations of E-government. The birth of e-government more than a decade ago, characterized by its almost instantaneous acceptance, has been a unique phenomenon in governance worldwide. The phenomenon has also spawned new terms,
and with fancy spellings, which has clouded the scene, making e-government terms and relationship of egovernment with other terms unclear, vague and often confusing. An attempt is made in th more...

This report assesses the issue of openness in our society through the use of freedom of information laws vs. privacy laws which give citizens the right to access their personal information held in government databanks. Each of these principles can be considered part of our inalienable human rights in democratic and free societies.

This workshop discussed the role of a new generation of e-government organizations which could extend the role of e-Government 'Centers of Excellence' or 'Competency Centers' in keeping with emerging technology and organizational trends. These organizations could potentially help expand and scale-up successful e-Government approaches, including those using Service Oriented Architecture and Web 2.0 technologies. These 'e-Gov 2.0' organizations could be designed as hybrids with flexible structures more...

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