e-Governance should be PPP model

What is PPP Model? According to J Satyanarayana, Principal Secretary - IT & Communications, Government of Andhra Pradesh, PPP means Private and Public Participation, which is integral for the implementation of e-governance. He was speaking during the plenary session at CONNECT 2002 on the roadmap for e-governance. The PPP model is advised for e-governance since the Government has neither money nor patience to implement it. Where as if the private and the public sector join together it would promise efficiency on one hand and accountability on the other hand. 

J Satyanarayana who is acclaimed for launching the concept of how IT can be taken deep down into the rural areas, elaborated that e-government project in order to be delivered should adopt 6C Model of implementation. Here the 6Cs stand for - Content development, Competency building, Connectivity, Citizen interface, Cyber laws and Capital. "If any one of the Cs is missing in the project it is likely to fail. Even if it takes off without any one of the aspects there are chances of it's failing in a later period," he added. 

Sharing the dais was Vivek Harinarain, Secretary - IT, Government of Tamil Nadu who took the success story of a pilot project called SARI (Sustainable Access in Rural India), for rural connectivity and bridging the digital divide. The success seen in the SARI project has resulted in implementing it to 10 other districts in the State under the name RASI (Rural Access to Services through the Internet). By 2004, they intend to cover all the districts in Tamil Nadu through
RASI.

Whereas Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor & HOD, Electrical Engineering Department of IIT, Madras, tried to reason out that the lack of penetration of teledensity in rural India was the high cost involved in installing the telephones lines. Therefore IIT launched n-Logue, which was to provide telephone and Internet in rural India. "Not a single operator looks at rural area as a business. But with computer and connectivity available rural areas will provide services to the urban regions as well as the West just as the urban India is doing now," said Ashok
Jhunjhunwala.

Cyber News Service