Why e-Government?

With the advent of the Information age, the ways we work, study and live have been experiencing dramatic changes. Due to the influence of economic and information globalization and the rise of digital economy, governments are "reinventing" themselves to meet new expectations and the priorities of citizens, business and its employees to create a new organizational structure to fulfill its mandate.

The following are few of the driving reasons for the e-Government implementation in Nepal:

• e-Government is suitable for the country like Nepal, where its citizens are not able to enjoy the government services because of geographical diversity.
  
• ICT, Internet and wireless technology can become the efficient and viable medium to support economic growth and reduce poverty in remote rural areas of Nepal. Because of the possibility of timely access to information, it can open up a lot of opportunities for the people living in any geographical location.
  
• e-Government can fulfil the mandate of government formulating a new vision of how government views its citizens, employees and businesses, and building a citizen-centered, service-oriented, public-participative government with efficient, accountable, transparent and performance government system.
• Expectations of citizens from government is very high. They expect business-like service from government. No more "Come-tomorrow" culture.
  
• Its important to empower and motivate government employees. e-Governmenance should transform the government workers into empowered knowledge workers.
• Nepal should not miss the benefits of global economy and specially the benefits offered by Internet.

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