The Hindu Business Line : CSI receives 100 eGov projects for evaluation

Selection procedure
The selection is based on what CSI calls an analytical hierarchy process that has been designed in collaboration with IIT, Delhi
After short-listing the projects, a team of experts will visit the sites and assess their implementation and their impact on the people

Hyderabad , Sept. 20

The Computer Society of India (CSI) has received over 100 eGovernance projects from 21 States for evaluation based on the project features, sustainability and technology innovation.

The Convener of CSI Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2005-06, Dr Ashok Agarwal, said that the awards sought to identify best IT projects from the perspective of citizen friendliness, their technological innovation and their sustainability.

The committee comprising Dr Vijayaditya, Director General of NIC, Mr. S.P. Singh, Senior Director of MIT, Mr L.C. Singh, President of Nihilent, and Prof Vaidya of IIM, Lucknow among others, will evaluate these projects.

Selection process

The selection is based on what CSI calls an analytical hierarchy process that has been designed in collaboration with IIT, Delhi. After short-listing the projects, a team of experts will visit the sites and assess their implementation and their impact on the people.

"As a part of the exercise to broadbase our efforts to identify good projects, CSI has written to about 600 district magistrates across the country seeking their contributions in technology adoption. The idea is to ensure that even a small good project gets covered by the CSI and potentially get replicated to other parts of the country," Dr, Agarwal explained.

The short-listed projects would be awarded best eGovernance awards at the Kolkata CSI annual event slated for November 24.

For the year 2002, eGovernance projects in Andhra Pradesh were chosen as the best, followed by Maharashtra in 2003 and the Union Territory of Chandigarh in 2004. The evaluation now is on for 2005.

"With cheaper bandwidth, more and more eGovernance projects are being implemented across various States. We expect in the next five years that, virtually, most of the States would be covered," he said.

The National Institute of Smart Governance is working on a framework that would potentially help replicate successful eGovernance projects.

Nihilent Technologies, a Pune-based company, has agreed to sponsor the CSI eGovernance awards project for five more years.

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