Evolving E-Governance through Cloud Computing based environment

Abstract: The introduction and continuous development of information and communication technologies has made governments across the globe realize their potential benefits. Although the computerization of departments has enhanced the efficiency with which information is handled and processed, it comes at a large cost in terms of infrastructure, skilled personnel and user reluctance. Whenever there is a change or update in technology, there arises a major need to update the infrastructure, skill set as well as the user perspective. Its not always possible to carry out such hugely expensive changes every time there is a technology update. Leaving aside the under-developed ones, even the developed countries would not afford to risk their resources for such tasks every now and then. In this paper, we take up the issue from a cloud based computing perspective and propose a cloud framework for the Indian National e- Governance Plan (NeGP) to ensure interoperability functionality among different states and to see the benefits such as - reduce the operating costs, provide greater reliability, transparency and sustainability while using latest technologies.

Keywords: cloud computing, e-gov, governance, NeGP