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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"New Nepal" through e-Governance

We are in the process of building "New Nepal". "New Nepal" should not become only a popular slogan but really the "New Nepal" with all the positive values and aspirations of its citizens geared towards the peace and progress. There are many dimensions streamlined and drivers identifed to make our "New Nepal" dreams come true. One of such dimensions is the reformation of the government. Governance and its service process should be well reengineered to fulfill the aspirations of its citizens. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its tools can help its effective and efficient transformation.

I have started this blog to create awareness in community, government bureaucracy and all concerned about ICT, e-Governance and contribute empowering society into knowledge based society. We will discuss in many issues pertaining to ICT use for development, governance reformation, e-governance for good governance and initiations for poverty alleviation and transform our society into Knowledge based society.

I would appreciate all the citizens to participate in the discussions and come up with thoughts, discussion topics, solutions and with all other whatever capacity any citizen in the country can contribute to build "New Nepal" using ICT as supporting tool.

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