Making ICT more Meaningful for Governance in the Rural Areas: Role of the Community Knowledge Systems

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Author(s): Charru Malhotra (Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), India), V.M. Chariar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)and L.K. Das (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 14
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.ch005

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

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The speed and outreach enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) have improved mechanisms of delivery of information, services and products to the public. ICT as an enabler of governance, christened as e-governance, is seen as means of attaining good governance. The millennium development goals (MDG) of targeting the poor, listening to the poor and learning from the poor seem to be more within the reach through the use of ICT. However the sustainability of majority of rural ICT interventions has not been very encouraging. The study of literature attributes this negligible success rate to several factors including neglect of traditional indigenous knowledge in the projects designed for rural masses. Authors of this study propose that by defining a proper framework and by use of proper methodologies, community knowledge systems (CKS) of a rural region, when incorporated in an e-governance initiative can assist various actors and processes of governance to attain good governance. Projects based on the proposed CKS based G2C2G framework are expected to be more sustainable and effective for ushering development in the rural areas. However, implementation of such projects would however require synergistic efforts between the government functionaries, aid agencies, non-profit organizations and the rural citizens. The prime hypothesis is that the assimilation, improvisation and dissemination of the traditional community knowledge systems (CKS) using ICT initiatives for rural governance, would help to liberate local ingenuity to catalyse sustainable rural development.

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