Hi every one.
Some crucial obervations / learning acquired by me while working with
Government of India and various state administrations there,are given below.
Hope you will find intresting ?
Internet is an infrastructure used for information exchange;
Various Agencies / Originations design and host their contents for use of
target users. There are short or / and long term motives (commercial, service,
political or other) of each hosting agent;
Internet as an infrastructure is immune to the language of hosted material;
For using the contents on Internet one needs internet access;
Internet access is provided by various Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on
cable, wireless or landline telecom infrastructures;
Telephone density or availability of internet access infrastructures
influences agencies decision to design and host contents relevent to specific
community or the consumers;
With a rural telephone density of less then 1 per hundred people in India
and very average propensity to consume due to poverty in these areas, there is
not much designed and hosted on Internet for the consumption of these rural
areas;
Government initiatives in developing countries should keep internet aside
while planning and designing ICSs for delivering services in rural areas;
Developing countries (without waiting for telecom infrastructures to
improve, poverty reduced and improving in literacy, as these require long term
attendance) should immediately work on strategies enabling ICTs based delivery
channels established so as required services can be reach the huge
disadvantaged segment of population at low cost, effectively and efficiently;
Government needs Intranet (WANs) with relevent contents hosted on it meeting
service demands of their citizens. Internet is secondary to the eGovernment for
developing countries under the existing circumstances.
Roop K Dave
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