Theme: Implementing Inclusive Governance
       Identifying applications and challenges in e-Gov deployment

E-Governance is increasingly being seen as a tool to bring down the cost of governance. While the government has done a great job on the conceptualization front on the e-Gov infrastructure building side, a lot of thinking needs to be channelized on services can be delivered. While all states are progressing at their own pace, the real test applications and services. So are some of the successful e-governance projects really been able to deliver the key citizen services?

Whether that is really happening needs to be assessed, and that is what will ultimately decide the effectiveness of e-governance implementation roadmap. The NeGP is a huge project, the success of which will decide all this and much more. Once all the states finish implementing major projects like state wide area network (SWAN), citizen service centers (CSC), state data centers (SDC), what next? Their status? And most importantly are the states geared on the capacity building front. Are the various state governments really ready for the next big leap? How effective has the change management been? Is it the municipalities, or the postal offices or the panchayats that will be the key touch point? What are the best practices followed by successful states and how other states can replicate it?
The idea is to make the CSCs an attractive and profitable proposition for the VLE (Village Level Entrepreneurs) and the common man. And finally how long will the wait be for the Indian citizens? All these questions are important for bringing and facilitating the next gen governance. The senior delegates present at the conference will address all these issues.

Summary
The Conference would not only be a platform where ‘specific’ important issues would be raised it would be the beginning towards understanding the implementation issues.