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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '14, 2014
ABSTRACT e-Governance has been embraced by almost all the countries which aim at modernizing publ... more ABSTRACT e-Governance has been embraced by almost all the countries which aim at modernizing public administration by trying to improve information and service delivery, and making government more accountable, transparent, responsive and effective. In a country like India, though there has been a political will for the successful implementation of e-Governance but accessibility of e-Governance in rural India has been a daunting task. Rural India constitutes a major portion of the country to be covered under the e-Governance mission plan. But, due to disadvantaged geographical positioning most of the rural areas are either inaccessible or poorly connected as far as ICT is concerned. As a result, people living in such areas have little access to many of the e-Governance services. Besides this, due to lack of education and inability to cope with ICT, the rural mass has lagged behind their urban counterparts in taking advantage of e-Governance services. In this paper, we analyze the factors that have an impact on the accessibility of e-Governance services, especially in rural India. This study can provide an insight into the actual requirements of the marginalized section of the society which must be suitably addressed in order to improve their accessibility to different ICT enabled services, thereby help achieving the mandate of inclusive e-Governance.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '12, 2012
ABSTRACT Ensuring quality for any software application, especially in the domain of e-Governance ... more ABSTRACT Ensuring quality for any software application, especially in the domain of e-Governance is a challenging task. This is because a slight mistake will not only jeopardize sensitive functions of a government but can adversely affect a large section of the society and may lead to aversion in the minds of the public towards use of ICT in governmental functions. Several standards have been followed in software development but quality assurance has remained as an active area of research especially for the e-Governance applications. In this paper we investigate certain quality parameters which are relevant to e-Governance applications and propose a quality assurance model which can be followed while developing different applications. As a proof-of-concept we have considered a very successful project called "e-Counseling" which was implemented in one of the backward states of India to facilitate student admission to different professional courses. The project not only helped in streamlining student admission but helped students in rural areas living at remote locations of the state of Orissa to participate in the admission process without having to travel long distances. Initial criticism because of unsatisfactory performance led to the present study to come up with a quality assurance model which can be followed for the success of the project.
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance - ICEGOV '07, 2007
In this paper, we describe a project called SORIG (Service-Oriented Framework for Rural Informati... more In this paper, we describe a project called SORIG (Service-Oriented Framework for Rural Information Grid) which has been undertaken specifically to address the information needs of the rural population of India. The novelty of this project is that it is geared towards integrating several existing systems built on heterogeneous platforms and operating environments under different administrative zones. In order to
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '09, 2009
In recent times, e-Governance is being widely encouraged both by the provincial as well as the fe... more In recent times, e-Governance is being widely encouraged both by the provincial as well as the federal Government of India for bringing Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) governance. As a consequence several e-governance projects have been undertaken encompassing a wide range of governmental functions. While an attempt is being made to provide transparent, scalable, manageable and easily accessible
2014 International Conference on Information Technology, 2014
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '11, 2011
In recent years web services seems to provide a solution towards interoperability both at the org... more In recent years web services seems to provide a solution towards interoperability both at the organizational and application level. It is possible to integrate inter-related tasks of different organizations through service composition techniques to form single service based applications. However, as government organizations function autonomously it is necessary to monitor these service based systems (SBS) at run-time. Monitoring SBS in
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '08, 2008
This paper describes our experience in the implementation of &amp... more This paper describes our experience in the implementation of "e-Grama" project in nine different districts of Orissa province in India. The project was initiated as a pilot in one of the relatively developed districts and extended to eight other underdeveloped districts of the province. The research findings elaborate on how "e-Grama" is helping as a tool to bridge the digital
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '11, 2011
Today developing countries are confronted with two major challenges -- on one hand the pressing n... more Today developing countries are confronted with two major challenges -- on one hand the pressing need to catch up with the international standards and on the other to address the basic needs of the citizens. While the first can be achieved through policy planning and technology adoption, the later can only be possible through citizen participation. In India the last
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '12, 2012
ABSTRACT Healthcare in developing countries has always been a major issue. In the Indian subconti... more ABSTRACT Healthcare in developing countries has always been a major issue. In the Indian subcontinent the healthcare facilities are quite diverse as one travels from major cities to remote locations and to the rural areas. Whatever little healthcare has been possible in rural India is only because of the initiative of the Government or NGOs. No private player is interested to invest in the rural areas because of the possible poor return on investment. In this paper we study how modern ICT in general and cloud computing in particular can be used in the healthcare sector in order to facilitate improved medical services in the rural areas at reduced costs. We argue that cloud services stand as a potential alternative to facilitate rural healthcare information management in terms of cost reduction and resource utilization. At the same time it can improve maintainability and use of up-to-date technologies in the healthcare sector. The main objective of a Cloud based information system is to create secure and state-of-the-art facility to store patient data which can be accessed by the medical professionals and policy makers for disease diagnosis and control. A cloud based information repository system can offer new possibilities, such as easy and ubiquitous access to medical data, and opportunities to utilize the services of medical experts which are otherwise unavailable in rural areas. Here, we propose a cloud based model for building a rural healthcare information system. Design of an overall system along with the functional components is presented and the advantages, open issues and prospects for further improvement of this model is also highlighted.
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011
Cloud is a model or architecture and a new paradigm of computing with SOA as its base architectur... more Cloud is a model or architecture and a new paradigm of computing with SOA as its base architecture. Cloud Computing has evolved as a key computing platform for sharing resources that include infrastructures, software, applications, and business processes. e-Governance plays a vital role in any organization and clouds with different layers are helpful to the e-Governance services. Cloud has different services, which are integrated and reused. As e-Governance is using distributed services, which requires a lot of ...
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '13, 2013
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2013
ABSTRACT E-Governance in India is fast progressing to the era of digital opportunities. Digital o... more ABSTRACT E-Governance in India is fast progressing to the era of digital opportunities. Digital opportunities in India have shown the paths of collaborative governance and mission 2007 recognizes the role of women to be more important. Role of women in overall development of society needs no debate. In India, women who constitute almost half of the population are integral part of overall development of the nation and policies are abundant to support the cause though a lot is still needed to be accomplished. One of the major challenges at the hands of policy makers and implementers is to empower the women and especially in rural India. Rural India is still under the grip of digital divides, though overall India as a nation has shown the promises of digital inclusion and digital opportunities. However, these opportunities are yet to have its outreach in rural areas. National Informatics Centre, a national agency in India is striving towards supporting the digital inclusion strategies of India with active deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled services. In this paper, it is argued that digital inclusion outreach is better achieved through collaborative and group based approaches and thus Women Self-Help Groups (WSHGs) show these promises. This paper presents the success story of some women WSHGs in Ganjam district of Odisha province by introducing web-based applications for better dissemination of information regarding their products and performance.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '10, 2010
The Service-Oriented Rural Information Grid (SORIG) is a framework that is geared towards integra... more The Service-Oriented Rural Information Grid (SORIG) is a framework that is geared towards integrating several existing services provided by the Government of India. Such services have been implemented on heterogeneous platforms and under different administrative control. The main objective of SORIG has been to facilitate "one-stop" access to various services of the Government. In this paper, we share our experience
International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER), 2013
ABSTRACT Different e-Governance applications in India are using Cloud for making the services sca... more ABSTRACT Different e-Governance applications in India are using Cloud for making the services scalable, stretchable and cost effective. Starting from the IT centres being setup at Panchayat level to the State/National data centres use the Cloud to create a common infrastructure that would be accessible by all. The focus is to enable sharing of resources, ensure security and take technology to the smaller towns and villages. But the major concern is to ensure security. This paper proposes a security solution by using architectural framework, open source products and immunization algorithm. Our interest is to use Artificial Immune System (AIS) with Clonal Selection Algorithm (CLONA) for secure transaction of e-Governance services. The porosed Cloud architecture adopts the learning process and follows security optimization techniques. This technique uses spontaneous action-event transactional state of Cloud Immunization and Security (CIS), defined security services such as Authentication, Firewall and Antivirus. With these technique and services the CIS system is empowered to dynamically determine the best clone and the best antibody. Intruder attacks termed as new antigens when approaches the Cloud, then the cloud system’s antibody known as threat detector follows Hamming Distance calculation to evaluate the threat termed as “affinity”. These affinity alerts and protects the Cloud system through CIS to undertake any kind of future attempt and attacks by the intruders.
International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2010
ABSTRACT This paper puts forth our experience while implementing the 'e-Grama' pr... more ABSTRACT This paper puts forth our experience while implementing the 'e-Grama' project in one of the relatively developed districts of Orissa Province in India which was later extended to other underdeveloped districts of the province. Further the paper describes how the project helped as a tool to bridge the digital divide and capacity building in the rural areas. It also highlights the role of youth clubs and NGOs in the successful implementation of the project. Further, it is shown how the problems encountered during project implementation in the rural areas could be solved through the public–private–people partnership model of 'e-Grama'.
Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences, 1976
A special form of Kranz anatomy, a single chlorenchymatous bundle sheath around a central ground ... more A special form of Kranz anatomy, a single chlorenchymatous bundle sheath around a central ground tissue embedding the vascular bundles, was observed to be associated with the C4 pathway of photosynthesis inGlossocordia boswallaea, a member of Asteraceae. The chloroplasts were centripetally located in the sheath cells. During short term carbon fixation, C4 acids, aspartate and malate were predominantly labelled. Radioactivity
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '14, 2014
ABSTRACT e-Governance has been embraced by almost all the countries which aim at modernizing publ... more ABSTRACT e-Governance has been embraced by almost all the countries which aim at modernizing public administration by trying to improve information and service delivery, and making government more accountable, transparent, responsive and effective. In a country like India, though there has been a political will for the successful implementation of e-Governance but accessibility of e-Governance in rural India has been a daunting task. Rural India constitutes a major portion of the country to be covered under the e-Governance mission plan. But, due to disadvantaged geographical positioning most of the rural areas are either inaccessible or poorly connected as far as ICT is concerned. As a result, people living in such areas have little access to many of the e-Governance services. Besides this, due to lack of education and inability to cope with ICT, the rural mass has lagged behind their urban counterparts in taking advantage of e-Governance services. In this paper, we analyze the factors that have an impact on the accessibility of e-Governance services, especially in rural India. This study can provide an insight into the actual requirements of the marginalized section of the society which must be suitably addressed in order to improve their accessibility to different ICT enabled services, thereby help achieving the mandate of inclusive e-Governance.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '12, 2012
ABSTRACT Ensuring quality for any software application, especially in the domain of e-Governance ... more ABSTRACT Ensuring quality for any software application, especially in the domain of e-Governance is a challenging task. This is because a slight mistake will not only jeopardize sensitive functions of a government but can adversely affect a large section of the society and may lead to aversion in the minds of the public towards use of ICT in governmental functions. Several standards have been followed in software development but quality assurance has remained as an active area of research especially for the e-Governance applications. In this paper we investigate certain quality parameters which are relevant to e-Governance applications and propose a quality assurance model which can be followed while developing different applications. As a proof-of-concept we have considered a very successful project called "e-Counseling" which was implemented in one of the backward states of India to facilitate student admission to different professional courses. The project not only helped in streamlining student admission but helped students in rural areas living at remote locations of the state of Orissa to participate in the admission process without having to travel long distances. Initial criticism because of unsatisfactory performance led to the present study to come up with a quality assurance model which can be followed for the success of the project.
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance - ICEGOV '07, 2007
In this paper, we describe a project called SORIG (Service-Oriented Framework for Rural Informati... more In this paper, we describe a project called SORIG (Service-Oriented Framework for Rural Information Grid) which has been undertaken specifically to address the information needs of the rural population of India. The novelty of this project is that it is geared towards integrating several existing systems built on heterogeneous platforms and operating environments under different administrative zones. In order to
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '09, 2009
In recent times, e-Governance is being widely encouraged both by the provincial as well as the fe... more In recent times, e-Governance is being widely encouraged both by the provincial as well as the federal Government of India for bringing Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) governance. As a consequence several e-governance projects have been undertaken encompassing a wide range of governmental functions. While an attempt is being made to provide transparent, scalable, manageable and easily accessible
2014 International Conference on Information Technology, 2014
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '11, 2011
In recent years web services seems to provide a solution towards interoperability both at the org... more In recent years web services seems to provide a solution towards interoperability both at the organizational and application level. It is possible to integrate inter-related tasks of different organizations through service composition techniques to form single service based applications. However, as government organizations function autonomously it is necessary to monitor these service based systems (SBS) at run-time. Monitoring SBS in
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '08, 2008
This paper describes our experience in the implementation of &amp... more This paper describes our experience in the implementation of "e-Grama" project in nine different districts of Orissa province in India. The project was initiated as a pilot in one of the relatively developed districts and extended to eight other underdeveloped districts of the province. The research findings elaborate on how "e-Grama" is helping as a tool to bridge the digital
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '11, 2011
Today developing countries are confronted with two major challenges -- on one hand the pressing n... more Today developing countries are confronted with two major challenges -- on one hand the pressing need to catch up with the international standards and on the other to address the basic needs of the citizens. While the first can be achieved through policy planning and technology adoption, the later can only be possible through citizen participation. In India the last
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '12, 2012
ABSTRACT Healthcare in developing countries has always been a major issue. In the Indian subconti... more ABSTRACT Healthcare in developing countries has always been a major issue. In the Indian subcontinent the healthcare facilities are quite diverse as one travels from major cities to remote locations and to the rural areas. Whatever little healthcare has been possible in rural India is only because of the initiative of the Government or NGOs. No private player is interested to invest in the rural areas because of the possible poor return on investment. In this paper we study how modern ICT in general and cloud computing in particular can be used in the healthcare sector in order to facilitate improved medical services in the rural areas at reduced costs. We argue that cloud services stand as a potential alternative to facilitate rural healthcare information management in terms of cost reduction and resource utilization. At the same time it can improve maintainability and use of up-to-date technologies in the healthcare sector. The main objective of a Cloud based information system is to create secure and state-of-the-art facility to store patient data which can be accessed by the medical professionals and policy makers for disease diagnosis and control. A cloud based information repository system can offer new possibilities, such as easy and ubiquitous access to medical data, and opportunities to utilize the services of medical experts which are otherwise unavailable in rural areas. Here, we propose a cloud based model for building a rural healthcare information system. Design of an overall system along with the functional components is presented and the advantages, open issues and prospects for further improvement of this model is also highlighted.
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011
Cloud is a model or architecture and a new paradigm of computing with SOA as its base architectur... more Cloud is a model or architecture and a new paradigm of computing with SOA as its base architecture. Cloud Computing has evolved as a key computing platform for sharing resources that include infrastructures, software, applications, and business processes. e-Governance plays a vital role in any organization and clouds with different layers are helpful to the e-Governance services. Cloud has different services, which are integrated and reused. As e-Governance is using distributed services, which requires a lot of ...
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '13, 2013
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2013
ABSTRACT E-Governance in India is fast progressing to the era of digital opportunities. Digital o... more ABSTRACT E-Governance in India is fast progressing to the era of digital opportunities. Digital opportunities in India have shown the paths of collaborative governance and mission 2007 recognizes the role of women to be more important. Role of women in overall development of society needs no debate. In India, women who constitute almost half of the population are integral part of overall development of the nation and policies are abundant to support the cause though a lot is still needed to be accomplished. One of the major challenges at the hands of policy makers and implementers is to empower the women and especially in rural India. Rural India is still under the grip of digital divides, though overall India as a nation has shown the promises of digital inclusion and digital opportunities. However, these opportunities are yet to have its outreach in rural areas. National Informatics Centre, a national agency in India is striving towards supporting the digital inclusion strategies of India with active deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled services. In this paper, it is argued that digital inclusion outreach is better achieved through collaborative and group based approaches and thus Women Self-Help Groups (WSHGs) show these promises. This paper presents the success story of some women WSHGs in Ganjam district of Odisha province by introducing web-based applications for better dissemination of information regarding their products and performance.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance - ICEGOV '10, 2010
The Service-Oriented Rural Information Grid (SORIG) is a framework that is geared towards integra... more The Service-Oriented Rural Information Grid (SORIG) is a framework that is geared towards integrating several existing services provided by the Government of India. Such services have been implemented on heterogeneous platforms and under different administrative control. The main objective of SORIG has been to facilitate "one-stop" access to various services of the Government. In this paper, we share our experience
International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER), 2013
ABSTRACT Different e-Governance applications in India are using Cloud for making the services sca... more ABSTRACT Different e-Governance applications in India are using Cloud for making the services scalable, stretchable and cost effective. Starting from the IT centres being setup at Panchayat level to the State/National data centres use the Cloud to create a common infrastructure that would be accessible by all. The focus is to enable sharing of resources, ensure security and take technology to the smaller towns and villages. But the major concern is to ensure security. This paper proposes a security solution by using architectural framework, open source products and immunization algorithm. Our interest is to use Artificial Immune System (AIS) with Clonal Selection Algorithm (CLONA) for secure transaction of e-Governance services. The porosed Cloud architecture adopts the learning process and follows security optimization techniques. This technique uses spontaneous action-event transactional state of Cloud Immunization and Security (CIS), defined security services such as Authentication, Firewall and Antivirus. With these technique and services the CIS system is empowered to dynamically determine the best clone and the best antibody. Intruder attacks termed as new antigens when approaches the Cloud, then the cloud system’s antibody known as threat detector follows Hamming Distance calculation to evaluate the threat termed as “affinity”. These affinity alerts and protects the Cloud system through CIS to undertake any kind of future attempt and attacks by the intruders.
International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2010
ABSTRACT This paper puts forth our experience while implementing the 'e-Grama' pr... more ABSTRACT This paper puts forth our experience while implementing the 'e-Grama' project in one of the relatively developed districts of Orissa Province in India which was later extended to other underdeveloped districts of the province. Further the paper describes how the project helped as a tool to bridge the digital divide and capacity building in the rural areas. It also highlights the role of youth clubs and NGOs in the successful implementation of the project. Further, it is shown how the problems encountered during project implementation in the rural areas could be solved through the public–private–people partnership model of 'e-Grama'.
Proceedings / Indian Academy of Sciences, 1976
A special form of Kranz anatomy, a single chlorenchymatous bundle sheath around a central ground ... more A special form of Kranz anatomy, a single chlorenchymatous bundle sheath around a central ground tissue embedding the vascular bundles, was observed to be associated with the C4 pathway of photosynthesis inGlossocordia boswallaea, a member of Asteraceae. The chloroplasts were centripetally located in the sheath cells. During short term carbon fixation, C4 acids, aspartate and malate were predominantly labelled. Radioactivity