ICT ENABLED GOVERNANCE: GOVERNANCE WITH TRANSPERANCY & INNOVATION

Abstract

Governments and other public sector organizations around the world are facing to
reform their public administration organizations and deliver more efficient and cost effective
services, as well as better information and knowledge to their stakeholders. E-Governance is the
application of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) for delivering government services,
exchange of information communication transactions, integration of various stand-alone systems and
services between Government-to-Citizens (G2C), Government-to-Business(G2B) and Government-toGovernment [3]. Its main goal is to improve and/or enhance on the efficiency and effectiveness of
service delivery in the public sector. E-governance allows for government transparency. EGovernance helps to simplify processes and makes access to government information more easily
accessible for public sector agencies and citizens. Due to the advances made in ICT E-Governance
users can access the required services at any time; any where via WWW browser. So to provide
required data and services safely to the particular recipient is crucial in E-Governance. This paper
presents brief introduction about what is E-Governance, scope of E-Governance, its advantages –
disadvantages.