Ten years back I use to get excited by seeing mobile phones on people’s hand and I wondered that wow! What a device that connects people to another staying at a distance without any wire and It was my dream that someday I will also own a mobile phone. But today I have a smartphone which is much more than a simple mobile phone with which I can make calls, video calls, browse the internet , click pictures, videos and I can do much more stuffs on it. Remember the day when we use to stand in queue the entire day just to pay bills, buy tickets or to fill any government’s form but now we can do all these stuffs from our home using internet. We can now compare that how e-governance and technologies has made our life better, easier and much transparency on accountability .
The main motive of the e-governance is to provide it’s service and make people to have access to government at each and every part of the nation so that none of us would left behind from getting the government’ service .
Bellow here are my few opinions to spread e-governance more effectively and efficiently.
IT EDUCATION
As we improve our technologies, infrastructure and we implement more with technologies such as computers and internet then it becomes necessary to spread IT education among the people of the nation . Government should focus more on IT education starting from primary schools to higher secondary and it is also necessary to organize local IT education camps within panchyat and remote areas to provide basic knowledge of computer and internet among the people who are not aware of these things so that each and every people in nation will understand how to use the services of e-governance from their home and they will not get cheated by fraud and private agencies who tend to provide government’s services by taking some fees .
AVAILABILITY OF CONNECTIVITY
E-governance is worthless without the availability of connectivity and transmission media at every corner of the nation .There are so many villages and remote areas in India who has not seen the faces of Internet yet . The government should lay broadband cables and other media to make available of internet services among these areas so that the people can access to the government’s services from those area. India have big problem of poor connectivity and price hikes by the privates MNC’s on internet accessibility which becomes tougher for middle class people to afford it’s costs. People believe more on government’s organization than these private companies who charges extra for these services . If government can provide better services on accessibility the people will not rely on the private companies anymore .
GOVERNMENT IT SECTORS
Yet the day, the e-governance are working fine but sometime these services becomes poor because the government’s technical and IT sectors are poorly managed as they lacks technical staffs hence the government hand over the portals to private organization to manage the services. So it is necessary that as the government will provide e-governance then it having some specialized staffs to manages those portals so the services will never go down as well as it will also increase the employment in government .IT sectors .
CYBER SECURITY
The e-governance is completely dependent on the internet which includes online financial transactions, transfer of high sensitive personal and corporate data , highly valued database etc and much more, so it is more important to secure the cyber spaces and protect the public’s as well as government’s data. People enters their personal data as well as monetary information by keeping faith in the services of e-governance , If the security is breached then the people will lose trust on e-governance’s services. The government need to hire ethical hacker and security professionals who will think like the malicious hackers to safeguard the precious data and improve online security .
DEVELOPMENT OF APPS
Now a days smartphones are being widely used more than computers to get accessibility and stay in touch with each other via internet and it is said that India has more smartphones than computers , so no doubt that each and every people have not their own computers to access the services of e-governance but they have smartphones on almost every house and people are so familiar using the apps , so the government needs to implement e-governance via mobile phone’s apps so that each and every common people can get the services of e-governance .
ALL IDENTITY WITH ONE NUMBER
Mobile phones has become most necessary in our daily life , a mobile number is indeed an identity of a person but we can use this number as more than identity to bring portability and flexibility in our daily life activities . Suppose we go at some places where we need a bunch of identity cards and other documents to prove who we are where do we stay which becomes very rigid process at some moment and situations . So let the government use our mobile number with a unique code which will retrieve all our details , so whenever we need to verify our identity then we just need to enter our mobile phone number with an unique code . We can use this method at many places such as at banking transactions where we will not need any card, in purchase or sales and at many other places where we need to prove ourselves in a quick .
INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure is the root of nation’s development , and a nation cannot be said as developed or improved without an improved infrastructure. Let it be the development of information technology , then the nation need some of the required resources to carry out the activities for the aimed target of development . It is 2015 but there are many places in India where there is no electricity and required transport which are the basic needs for development of any sectors of a nation. People need to draw government’s attention towards these places where people are very needy for these basic amenities and when they will see the flexible services of e-governance then no one would leave behind from using the services of e-governance .
Final words…
Every people in this country need the services of government but it becomes hard to reach all government’s service up to them because of many reasons behind it but e-governance is one unique platform which can make the reach of government’s service to public and vice verse smoothly efficiently and effectively . But for this the government need to aware people and make them familiar about the e-governance , how does it works via different mean and methods . It should be not only to provide the pre-implemented services but it should have a great option to interact with general public to get their opinions , feedback and their requests to make a better governance that will build a developed nation.
This post has been written for Digital India campaign held by Intel India at Indiblogger.in
