Common service centres, state-wide area networks and state data centres` e-governance projects approved by the Indian Union government in May 2006 are already running six to nine months late, and are unlikely to meet their March deadline, reports Live Mint.
The three projects, or pillars, as they are called, form the core and support infrastructure of the National e-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services to the common man.
The projects work on the public-private partnership model, and are backed by leading private firms such as Bharti Airtel, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, and Infosys.
E-governance bridges divide
In India, Hughes Network Systems (HNS) is a pioneer in e-governance initiatives, says Indian Express.
HNS`s president Pranav Roach says: "In 2006, the government approved the National e-Governance Plan, which involved setting up 100 000 common service centres to help bring the benefits of ICT to rural India.
"Several state governments have since awarded or initiated steps to award e-governance projects to private players. We expect the e-governance projects to bridge the digital divide and spread the benefits of ICT."
Compliance benefits SOA
Governance is a big deal in service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation, explains Search SOA.
"Governance provides a rational way of managing change by providing policies which ensure that complex combinations of services and technologies do not result in adverse consequences," says Miko Matsumura, VP and deputy CTO of Software AG.
"By getting all the Web services organised in a repository, the IT department gets visibility into what they have. An architect can then take different views of the services, looking at them from the perspective of the business user on the one hand, and the developer composing applications on the other," he concludes.
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