E-Governance Projects and Infrastructure Issues

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Financing of E-Governance Projects

Having the e-governance projects to cater to the needs of the citizens is one thing and to provide better reach to those e-governance projects is another. It needs a big investment. Now the question arises, how these e-governance projects are financed and what are the ways of financing which can transform the way of livings.

There cannot be a straightforward and single model. This must be flexible enough where both the private and public parties should get themselves involve in it. There are various models that could be adopted:
Option 1: The governments could run the portals and websites themselves.

Option 2: They could collaborate in various ways with various IT majors such as TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Satyam etc., where there is direct financial and operational contribution from the private partner. Even vernacular websites could have private sector participation.

Option 3: They could bid out various processes on BOT (Build, Own and Operate) and BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) to the private sector, in a strictly transparent manner.

Each of these approaches has its own positive and negative impacts. In general, they vary from high control and low efficiency (Option 1) to low control and high efficiency (Option 3). The financial aspect also has to be considered. The difficult part here is to decide how much tolerance is to be given to the private sector, when it comes to handling public information.

The issue is complicated and needs a great deal of involvement of all parties concerned to arrive at a set of regulations for the same. Another criterion would be the sensitivity of the information involved and the financial, political or social gains to be had, if such information is manipulated.

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