This comprehensive text, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide the entire spectrum of e-governance—from definition of e-governance to its history, evaluation, e-governance models, infrastructure and manpower facilities, data warehousing possibilities in implementation of e-government projects, and strategies of success of such projects.

The text covers 22 case studies—18 Indian case studies and four International case studies. The Indian case studies include Bhoomi, a project of Karnataka Government, CARD (Computer-aided Administration of Registration Department), Smart Nagarpalika (Computerization of Urban Local Bodies or Municipalities), IT in judiciary, Sachivalaya Vahini (e-governance at Secretariat), e-Khazana (Computerization of Treasury Department), and e-Panchayat (Electronic Knowledge-based Panchayat). The international case studies are culled from USA, China, Brazil and Sri Lanka.

This book would be of great interest to students of computer science, IT courses, management and public administration. In addition, government departments—both at the centre and in various states—and administrators should find the book highly useful.

NEW TO THIS EDITION :

Provides two Appendices—one on Eucalyptus cloud to remotely provision e-governance application and another on Revisiting NeGP: eBharath 2020: the proposed future NeGP.About the AuthorC.S.R. PRABHU (MTech, IIT Bombay), is Deputy Director General and State Informatics Officer, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Andhra Pradesh State Unit, Hyderabad. Prior to joining NIC, he worked in various capacities at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), CMC, and TELCO (now Tata Motors). During his association with University of Central Florida, Mr. Prabhu served NASA at Cape Canaveral. He has also been a consultant to Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Irvine, California and Florida Savings and Loans, Orlando, Florida.

At NIC, he worked on e-governance projects for about 18 years in various capacities, both at Central and State levels. He was instrumental in developing many e-governance applications and information system for the Central Government, state governments, district administration, and taluka and village level e-governance projects (whose case studies are presented in this book).