E-Governance: Tool for E-Democracy and Citizen Empowerment in the Horizon of Information Technology Era in Developing Society in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

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Author(s): Subhajit Choudhury (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)and Sudhir Kumar (Vikram University, India)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 20
Source title: E-Government Development and Diffusion: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Digital Democracy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ganesh P. Sahu (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India), Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK)and Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-713-3.ch007

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

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The chapter introduces information communication technology and its importance with respect to digital divide. Digital divides is the connotation of three terms global divide, social divide, democratic divide. Further, it discusses the role of United Nations and United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for bridging digital divide amongst the under develop and developing nations. It also relates e-democracy with citizen empowerment. Some projects related to e-governance in developing society in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh have been discussed. The Library and Information Centres have been given utmost priority to maintain the e-governance projects so that these projects can better be maintained with proper information and become more citizen-centric.

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