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J Satyanarayanaaddressing the
inaugural sessionof eWorld Forum
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Delegates at eWorldForum 2012
N Ravishankar, Dr M P Narayanan,J Satyanarayana, Dr Sudhir Krishna,Som Mittal and Caitlin Wiesen at theInaugural session of eWorld Forum 2012
Rita Teaotia addressing the session on ICTfor Inclusive Growth at eWorld Forum 2012
J S Kochar, FrederikaMeijer, S Regunathan,
Anil Shrivastav andSrinivas HR at eWorld
Awards 2012
J Satyanarayana visiting theexhibitors at eWorld Forum 2012
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Te eWorld Forum 2012, one of Indias most prestigious events on e-Governance, transpired at Le Mridien Hotel, New Delhi, on 15th and 16th June,2012. A bevy of Senior Officials representing the Centre and State governments in India and other countries attended the event along with Reprsentatives of Eminent International Institutions, Political Leaders, Industry Leaders, Tought Leaders, Policy Makers, Academicians, Researchers andechnology Vendors.Many Important Delegates from all walks of governance, business and social space arrived at the event to interact with the key speakers and to ga
new insight into the new e-Governance ideas that are being launched and developed. Te eWorld Awards 2012, which recognises excellence in the eldof e-Governance, were distributed at the event. Te 31 winners of e-Governance awards received their trophy and citation from the hands of: S Regunathan, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission & Former Chief Secretary, Govt of Delhi Anil Shrivastav, Joint Director General, Civil Aviation & CMD Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd Frederika Meijer, Representative, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, India, and Country Director, Bhutan
Right to information is based on the idealthat it is the citizen who in real sense of theterm is the owner of information
J Satyanarayana , Secretary, DeitY, Ministry of
Communication & IT, Govt of India
Traditionally, we have been very proudof our rural population, but this pride is
not based on rational analysis. In order toincrease productivity of the country, people
should migrate to urban areas
Dr Sudhir Krishna , Secretary, Ministry of UrbanDevelopment, Government of India
In order to build a smart nation, it is just notenough to have smart cities, we must alsohave smart villages
N Ravishankar , Administrator, USOF, Dept of Telecom,Government of India
The disparity and diversity of our countryposes challenges in the path of inclusive
growth. However, the rate at which we aregrowing gives rise to aspirations
Rita Teaotia , Additional Secretary, DeitY, Ministry of
Communication & IT, India
Inclusive growth can only be achievedin a sustainable manner when all the
three dimensions of development -economic, social and environmental - are
addressed in our policies, programmesand partnerships
Caitlin Wiesen , Country Head, UNDP India
Technology is not merely about automatingthings, it is really about bringing outtransformations and ensuring that theprocess we use in the government keepbecoming more efcient
Som Mittal , President, NASSCOM
Governance in theInformation Age
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Public awareness is the most importantfactor in disaster management
Anil K Sinha , Vice Chairman, Bihar State DisasterManagement Authority
My ofce is the only commission in thewhole country where there are no paper
les. Yet, I manage to do ample amount ofwork
Shailesh Gandhi , Central Information Commissioner,Government of India
In the digital age do we really need a birthcerticate, a caste certicate, school leavingcerticate, an income certicate? What isthe use of that piece of paper?
Sanjiv Mital , CEO, National Institute for SmartGovernment
e-Governance leads to transparency,which in turn leads to more efciency in
governance. However, the core issue is note-Governance, it is good governance. The eis only a tool for providing good governance
Anil Srivastava , JDG, Directorate General of CivilAviation (DGCA); and CMD, Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd
There is a gap between conceptualisinge-Governance projects and execution of thesame. This gap comes into being as differentdepartments are not motivated to carry oute Governance projects on a large scale
Dharmarajan Krishnan , Additional Director, DirectorateGeneral of Systems, Custom and Excise
The latest project for providingbroadband connectivity to the village
panchyats addresses the issue of digitaldivide. Hopefully in the coming two, three
years there will be a solution
Dr Rajendra Kumar , Jt. Secretary-DeitYGovernment of India
Inclusive growth can only be a reality whenthere is empowerment of people through aprocess of data sharing
R Shiva Kumar , CEO, NSDI, Dept. of Science andTechnology, Government of India
ICT can provide us with ways of conductingadministrative reforms for providing better
services to the citizens
Hossam Ragheb , Ministers Advisor & Executive Director,National Management Institute, Ministry of State for
Administrative Reform, Egypt
Up till a year ago IT was looked upon asa minor department and the traditionaldepartments such as Agriculture,PWD, Public Health were given moreimportance. But things are changing now
Anurag Goel , Secretary, Dept. of IT, Government of
Assam
The need of the hour is to have a systemfor Coordinated, real-time communication
between the rst responders at any incident,the public and the various organisations that
are tasked with handling the emergency
Dr Rajvir P Sharma , Additional Director General ofPolice, Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force, Karnataka
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I want to see a cloud that rains governmentservices, which could eventually becomepay-as-you-use model. It is a long journey
Renu Budhiraja , Scientist-G, DeitY, Government of India
The initiative of Delhi Trafc Police to makeuse of social networking sites like Facebook
for reaching out to the people has beenquite successful
Satyendra Garg , Joint Commissioner of Police, DelhiTrafc Police
Delivery of information and servicesare important aspects of e-Governanceinitiatives. Most of the information is prepackaged and is created from a singularperspective
Dr Neeta Verma , Senior Technical Director, NIC,
Government of India
Empowering people through technologyhelps them in improving their earnings,
making them more responsive totheir family, to their society and to the
government
A K Jain, Managing Director, Rajasthan Electronics and
Instruments Ltd
With so many e-Governance initiativesbeing undertaken, management of e-wastebecomes imperative
Dr Sandip Chatterjee , Additional Director, DIT
Financial Inclusion means bringing bankingservices to the unbanked millions and to the
underserved areas. 51 percent of the ruralhouseholds are nancially excluded
A V V Prasad , Additional Commissioner, (admin, IT,Smart Cards), Government of Andhra Pradesh
Our government does not have technicallyequipped manpower to build cloud services
for different departments
Rajan Raj Pant , Controller, Ministry of Science andTechnology, Govt. of Nepal
For me as a Police Ofcer IT is nothing buta tool for providing better law and order
Purushottam Sharma , Additional Director General ofPolice, Madhya Pradesh
In GIS the information that comes forth ismuch more detailed as compared to what
we can have from any normal map
Maj Gen R C Padhi , Addl Surveyor General, Military
Survey, Government of India
Financial Inclusion has to be one of themain thrust of the policy. People needempowerment, access to nance, and thebasic forms of transfer of transactions
Santanu Sengupta , Director, Corporate Affairs and
Finance, ACMFI
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A cyber democracy is a democracy intrue sense, because everyone is on sameplatform, has the same choices and canshare their opinion at the same level
Nishant Baranwal , Director (Development & PolicyResearch), Ofce of Sh. Naveen Jindal, Member ofParliament, Lok Sabha
Internet is required, people want to be apart of Internet to understand what the
government is doing but accessibility is notas much
Vaishali Ali , District Convenor NGO Cell - Uttar PradeshMahila Congress
Whether you like it or not we are allpoliticians, and ultimately it is politics thatbrings change to society
Prabir Purkayastha , Research Unit of CPM
Social Media is very democratic medium,one that is capable of inspiring social
movements
Shivendra Singh Chauhan , Team Anna
The main challenges being faced ine-Governance projects are usually relatedto technical issues, economic or nancialissues and social issues
Jagdeep S Kochar , Executive Director IT, (n)CodeSolutions- A division of GNFC Ltd
After the rollout of 77 Passport SevaKendras, it has become much easier for
citizens to gain access to passport relatedservices
Golok Kumar Simli , Principal Consultant and Head -
Technology, Ministry of External Affairs, Government ofIndia
e-Governance is all about delivery ofelectronic services in a timely manner
Prakash B Rane , Managing Director, ABMKnowledgeware
Our budget allocation fore-Governance is increasing by the day,
yet we are telling our citizens to beinline and not online
Vikas Aggarwal , Director, KPMG
India already has RTI in place, but opendata is about creating economic value outof the information you receive
Waltraut Ritter , Director, Knowledge Dialogues,
Hong Kong
We are close to 1000 million mobileconnections in the country. Governmentis the major force behind introducing the
technology, sustaining the technology andtaking the technology to the people
Anil Kumar Jain , Sr. GM, BSNL
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In order to be successful, any business hasto be connected to the livelihoods of the
people
Sanjay Panigrahi , CEO, SREI Sahaj
Essentially e-Governance is adopted forensuring that there is good governance andthere is a certain degree of improvement inthe quality of peoples lives
Dr Jaijit Bhattacharya , Director, GovernmentAffairs, HP India
There are ve key drivers of visualcommunications that will shape where,when, with whom, and how we work.The rst driver is mobile devices, the 2nddriver is network readiness, the 3rd driveris cloud delivery, the 4th driver is socialconnectedness, the 5th driver is the factthat the latest generation has been raisedon video
Gagan Verma , National Head- Government Business forPolycom India
Knowledge sharing is critical forinclusive growth, particularly at the
grassroots level. Through knowledgesharing those at the grassroots level
have wider choices
Dr Ramesh Kumar Jalan , Climate ChangeCommunity, Solution Exchange, United Nations
Development Programme
Modern digital technology has changed theway we live, we work and the way we practiceour politics
Paranjoy Guhathakurta , Senior Journalist
India is lled with young people who arecomfortable with new technology. Studentsstudying in village schools are now gettingeducated through digital means
Arvind Mehrotra , President-APAC & Middle East, NIITTechnologies Ltd
People use a wallet while doing transactionat a retail shop. There is a certain time
and motion associated with it. We had toreplicate the same in our service
Abhishek Sinha , EKO Services
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