Digital India in Action, Selected eGovernance Initiatives-2015

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Digital India in Action

Selected eGovernance Initiatives-2015

This compendium presents a selection of eGovernance initiatives in India which
competed for the coveted Computer Society of India’s CSI-Nihilent eGovernance
awards for the year 2014-2015.

The primary objective of this compendium is to bring to the attention of National
and global audience, a small selection of the inspired effort of a number of e-
Government functionaries in the Country who strive to bring to the Citizens of
India, the best that eGovernance has to offer.

The awards to winners were presented by the Computer Society of India’s Special
Interest Group on eGovernance (CSI-SIGeGov) during the 50th Annual Convention
of the Computer Society of India held at New Delhi on 3rd December, 2015.

-- Editors

Digital India in Action

Selected eGovernance Initiatives-2015

Sridevi Ayaluri and Dr. Vijaya Sekhar KS
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About CSI
Formed in 1965, the Computer Society of India (CSI) has been instrumental in
guiding the Indian IT industry down the right path since its formative years. The
CSI has 70 chapters all over India, 418 student branches, and more than 90,000
members including India's most famous IT industry leaders, brilliant scientists and
dedicated academicians. The mission of the CSI is to facilitate research,
knowledge sharing, learning and career enhancement for all categories of IT
professionals, while simultaneously inspiring and nurturing new entrants into the
industry and helping them to integrate into the IT community. The CSI is also
working closely with other industry associations, government bodies and academia
to ensure that the benefits of IT advancement ultimately percolate down to every
single citizen of India.

The CSI adopts the mechanism of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). SIGs are
organized on selected domains of significant academic, research, industry and
societal importance. It is as part of this structure that the Special Interest Group on
eGovernance [SIG eGov] conducts the annual CSI-Nihilent eGovernance Awards.
For more information, please visit www.CSI-India.org

About Nihilent

Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd is a global consulting and solutions integration
company using a holistic and systems approach to problem solving. Headquartered
in Pune, India, Nihilent has extensive experience in international consulting, IT
outsourcing and IT services. Nihilent’s operations span North America, Europe,
Africa and Asia. Nihilent mission Change for Performance encapsulates its
commitment to make change happen systemically in terms of people, process,
technology and knowledge for achieving sustained performance for it’s clients.

For more information please visit www.nihilent.com

About Editors
Sridevi Ayaluri has sixteen years of rich experience in the domain of
eGovernance. Currently, she is handling various projects related to the e-Gov
domain, as an independent consultant. Earlier, during her instinct as the Deputy
General Manager in Capacity Building & Knowledge Management vertical at the
National Institute for Smart Government, she had spearhead various prestigious
and national level GoI initiatives like Chief Information Officers and Specialized
Training Programmes in eGovernance under the National eGovernance Plan, GoI.
Sridevi has played a key role in national and international Institutional
collaborations. She led the one year educational program on eGovernance being
taught at post Graduate Diploma level programmes at various prestigious Institutes
in India. She had also been part of the team that developed eGovernance
Competency Framework for Government officials. She supported National
eGovernance Division in developing the Strategy Paper of the NeGP-Capacity
Building Phase II.

Earlier she was co-editor of four books under this series- Envisioning a Digital
India- Selected eGovernance Initiatives in India -2014, “Compendium of Selected
eGovernance Initiatives in India -2013”, “Enablers of Change: Selected
eGovernance Initiatives in India”, and “Fostering e -Governance : Selected
Compendium of Indian Initiatives” .

Dr K S Vijaya Sekhar holds PhD in Public Administration with a focus on
electronic Governance. His interest areas include Public Service Delivery; Citizen
Satisfaction towards ICT based services and eParticipation. He has over 20
research papers to his credit in International and National conferences. He is
recipient of Best Paper Award for his paper Measuring Sustainability in
eGovernance Projects presented in 2nd International Conference on ICT for Rural
Development held at Institute of Business Management and Rural Development
(IBMRD), Ahmednagar during 1-3 November 2014.

He is currently with Research Center for eGovernance (RCeG) at IIIT, Hyderabad
and has over 23 years of work experience. He was earlier associated with Centre
for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Administrative Staff College of India
(ASCI) and ICRISAT. He is Life member of Computer Society of India [CSI] and
recipient of the coveted ‘CSI Service Award’ for the year 2012 for his significant
contribution to eGovernance at National Level.
He has been associated with CSI-Nihilent eGovernance Awards (CNEA) since its
very inception in 2002 and with CSI, Special interest Group on eGovernance [CSI
SIGeGOV] from 2007. He is also the Joint Convener for the CSI Nihilent e-Gov
Awards 2014-15.
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