Shamitta Revis
My suggestion is that this kind of a forum should focus on all the governance issues such as citizen empowerment, corruption, red tape reduction and service level improvement. Just talking about e-governance will not be enough. Citizen empowerment and participation in improvement of governance should be the aim rather than technology deployment.
Vikas Kanungo	The Society for Promotion of e-Governance
The National Governance stakeholder forum is an effort to initiate citizen driven e-Governance initiatives in the country. The users are requested to add their comments here to help us shape the agenda and format for the forum
Kannan Srinivasan	SCTIMST
Many at times, the beneficiaries are not the users of systems. For an example in Telemedicine, the user of the solution is a doctor. Here the actual end users are patients. This creates an artificial power structure. If the doctors decide not to use the system, this affects the end users. We will have to keep this in mind while developing egov strategies. This should make the users of the system more responsible. It should ensure that the users have endusers interest and not self interest. For an example, the doctors on strike in a public health system with a set of demands will not deliver services to show their protest. This ultimately affects the patients. By this way one may refuse to use the egov system, which is actually created for the benefits of the endusers. To avoid such adversities, we may have to create system which doesnot give full control to the intermediate users.
ajay singh gangwar	GOV OF M.P.
AJAY SINGH GANGWAR BHOPAL In my opinion this foroum should identified special areas where e/m goverenance would be effective and attractive for people . Like PDS is one of area where this goverenance is required urgentaly.SECOND ONE MAY BE municipal area where prople of urban area need this type of goverenance. And last we must have some Act like RTI which give power to people to ask for mobile goverenance and this should not to be left on goverment personnel initiatives.
S.M.Mizanur Rahman	KIDO
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shailiesh kumar sharma	LSR College, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi-110024
wanted to join forum.
Deepika Singh	Softdot Hi Tech Education
My suggestion is to bring more and more youths and most importantly students to achieve this goal .Being in education i would like to inform u that even in Delhi still many IT students are not aware about this Organization. As this issue was also raised in the Conference held in Delhi in November,I completely support that e-goverence should be bring in the courses for students, morever they should also made to work in these projects.Secondly it should also be discussed how to cope with the missuse of technolgy, how to bring awairence among people about its goals. With this its also needed to develop more userfriendly softwares and other technologies so that it can be utilized by all levels of people. Another major need is the effective deployment of MIS in the functional areas. Thankyou
Jiyoung Nam	UNDP
Where will the meeting on 8th Feb. be held? Who is eligible to be invited?
Sankar.A	EMPOWER
Dear Sir, Greetings from EMPOWER.Kindly include us in your mailing list and very much interested to participate in the meeting on 8th February 2008 . with best regards Thanking you A.SANKAR Executive Director EMPOWER. 107J / 133E, Millerpuram TUTICORIN-628 008 INDIA Telefax: 91 461 2310151 Mobile: 91 94431 48599 www.empowerindia.org EMPOWER is a Non-profit, Non-Political, Voluntary and Professional Civil Society Organisation . - Registered in the year 1991- Engaged in developmental work for the past 15 years in Southern Tamil Nadu.
Kalyan Mahata	Govt. College of Engineering and Leather Technolog
NGSF definitely improve the e-culture among the communities in the society.
Tage Kanno	Future Generations Arunachal
Very contextual. When CICs were set up in some of the remotest block headquarters of Arunachal Pradesh, there was great hope that something is going to happen. Alas! Nothing happened. CIC buildings were built, costly equipments were shipped, personnel were recruited, but all are rotting now. This forum need to explore the justification for such gross misuse of public resources.
Dr Sanjay Bedi	MM Institutte of Medical Sciences ,Ambala
Health Should be included in the National Egovernance Plan . Full blueprint on Computerisation of Health system will be provided on demand. including Medical Education and patient Heath care activity. As well as preventive Health care activity.
Dr Sajith Kumar R	Govt. Medical College Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala
Working and interested in areas of e governance in relation to Tele health, public health, IEC in health, epidemiology, formaland continuing medical education and research. E governance is avery transparent way for public private partnerships as well. Interested in participating and networking.
ramendra	paridhi bharti
Er. Koushlendra kumar	BIHAR GRAMIN
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P. Anand Babu	ICRISAT
I would like to participate in this event that would be learning experience and to further build this initiative to see better world for the poor with good governance.
Dr. M V Ananthakrishnan
The pricipaldiver of this meet/endeavour should be to not only educate the end-user but also emboldem them to exploit its capabilities and opportunities offered bysuch a transparent syste. However, the system should totally transparent tothe end-user...devoid of all technical knowledge.
jitendra	Indictrans and VJTI
Have been working as researcher, consultant and activist in egovernance with special emphasis on technologies enabling and enhancing stakeholder participation like Local language, GIS, opensource and Wi-Fi. Policy initiatives and mandates are a must if the gains of technology are not to be vendor-satisfying investments and not to bypass the citizen.The Stakeholder conferences with govt bodies participating is the best platform to arrive at such policies.Let this forum also set standards of social auditing of investments in the name of egovernance.I also belive that all the colleges ( engineering or others) spread out all across the country can be enabled through a cell in each of them , networked across internet (or hybrid net) to spread best practices , initially as support to the govt machinery and then for monitoring . This way a broadbase of technically competent youth will be made informed stakeholders in such a massive scale that cannot be bought off.
Dr. SOMNATH CHANDRA	Dept. of IT , Govt. of India
The Meeting is very relevant in the prsent scenario of implemenation of E-Governance solutions across the country. To implement a successful e-governance solution , it is essential that the solution be user friendly , upgradable and seamless across platforms. It is also important that the e-governance solutions to have language interface for wider proliferation. The importance of multilingualism has already been highlighted by UN. This forurm is an important platform to discuss various issues for implemenation of multilingual e-governance solutions and role of all stakeholders such as Govt. Developer and User.
ramit basu	Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of India
The forum should aim towards identifying strategies to simplify and popularise the use of ICTs and e-governance applications at the gram, block and zilla panchayat levels, which will certainly go a long way in strengthening decentralized governance.
GP Singh Chauhan	NIC
I would like to participate in the discussion for the finalization of working ICT framework for e-governance. I strongly believe that egovernance can not be achieved without governance. Therefore drive for changing mindset is also required along with creating ICT infrastructure.
KV Mathew	DFID(MPUSP), ADB-TA Assam
“Poverty is proportional to corruption” says CK Prahlad in his famous book Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. E-governance enhances Transactional Governance Capacity(TGC) which in turn reduces corruption. Though some people may argue that technology is not a substitute to good governance I tend to differ. E-governance, by enhancing TGC increases transparency and enable citizens to avail government services at a touch of a button from anywhere. Technology like language has never been a barrier; e-choupal, railway reservation systems have shown us that. The PPP models in vogue in India and abroad has shown us that E-governance systems can be set up practically free. So then what is stopping us from doing it? We all know the problem. Can we talk loud or can we talk about it with out naming it? Let us do it.
Kashinath Vajpai	TNS
Kashinath Vajpai	TNS
Kashinath Vajpai	TNS
Will participate in eDiscussion
Mr.D.K.Mohanty	Jyotirmayee Mahila Samiti
50% of the population are women and 95%areliving in rural areas.They didnot knoe what is e-governace and we propose for "voice of the grasroot" to be organised by NGOs and e-governance awareness for the Women self help groups should be arranged for successful implementation and participation.
Dhirendra Krishna	Yahoo group rti4ngo
RTI Act 2005 makes it obligatory for the public authorities to disclose the information required by the citizens.Egovernance projects should enable public authorities to fulfill this legal requirement. With transparency, public authorities would become more responsive to the requirement of citizens and this would strengthen democratic governance. I can explain this further, during the forthcoming discussions, if invited.| Dhirendra Krishna IA@AS (Retired) Moderator yahoo group rti4ngo
Dr Subir Roy	National INformatics Centre, West Bengal, Kolkata
THis is a great necessity. As consultants to the West Bengal we are working on 7 projects under NeGP and though we have been touch with some stakeholders, guidance in this regard will positively help us serve the citizens better. I am available for anything in successful impolementation of e-governance even beyond office hours. Subir Roy
Dr. Yatindra Singh Sisodia	MPISSR, Ujjain
The whole idea of good and responsive governance is that of giving, of serving and of doing good to the people, or solving their problems and making their lives more livable, satisfying and enjoyable. It comes close to Gandhiji’s concept of politics for service of the people and not for becoming masters of the people. The essential pre-requisite for quality governance is that the system should be good and suited to the needs, aspirations, background and ethos of the people concerned and that those selected for operating the system should be endowed with character and competence and motivated by the spirit of public service. Good governance must be democratic, participatory, transparent and accountable. The issue of good governance is more crucial and important from the point of view of grassroots democracy since at local level the decisions taken by the elected bodies have direct implications on the life of the major chunk of population of the country. Good governance has eight major characteristics. It is Participation, Rule of law, Transparency, Responsiveness, Consensus oriented, Equity and inclusiveness, Effectiveness and efficiency and Accountability. Good governance is an ideal, which is difficult to achieve in its totality. From the Indian point of view after independence efforts have been made to meet the needs and expectations of the people. Special efforts have been taken to address the rural multifaceted issues with massive investment but the results were
Kedareswar Choudhury	Darbar Sahitya Sansad
It is nice that such type of forum and discussion has started. What is more important is " How to ensure the participation from all corners of the country. Secondly the challenge is to advocate for accountability in the process of consultations. I was not there at pondicherry. But look forward to contribute forther.