– India One is concept of joined up Government and how the government of India will change when integration in services will be implemented across Government of India. This paper concentrates on the concept of Functional Join for integration of services. The paper is not focused on e-Governance but Governance issues that need to be addressed before introduc-ing a concept called India One. It talks about the enabling environment that is must for integrated delivery of services.

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 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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SPEG is a think tank and mission mode organization, promoted by senior IT and e-Government Practitioners, bureaucrats and legal experts as its founder members. SPEG has been engaged in research, knowledge management, community building projects in Asia and Europe. The organization has actively participated in the e-Government policy deliberations of Malaysia, Nepal and European commission over past two years and has partners in Europe and South East Asia for accelerating e-Government initiatives more...