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Kalam For National E-Governance Plan
Kalam For National E-Governance Plan
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Bangalore: President APJ Abdul Kalam has called for standardisation
of e-governance policies and guidelines at the national level and for
a software across the country for the purpose. Presiding over an e-
governance session at the Bangalore IT.Com 2002, Dr Kalam said,
"States should be assigned individual areas to work and each state
should specialise in a particular field." Since the overall
administrative system is same across the country it would be better
to have standardised system instead of each state trying replicate
the others, he added.
Dr Kalam said the stakeholders should prepare a national agenda in
this regard. He also wanted the software industry to develop a
domestic market for the IT services. At present the domestic software
industry is mainly driven by the government spending. The private
sector should also play a role in this regard, he pointed out.
Dr Kalam also called upon the leaders of the national electronic
industry to form an association with local chip makers to rise to
challenges of the emerging market. "Protecting the nation is not
protecting our borders but protecting the bits and bytes," he pointed
out. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu unveiled the
initiatives launched by the state to herald a paperless system of
administration.
Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna said the fruits of technology
could usher a social transformation only when it reaches out to a
large population. He highlighted the e-governance initiatives of the
state government in this regard.
Source: Financial Express
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=20655
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