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Arvind Thakur CEO NIIT Technologies
Towards g-governance
G
ood governance delivers better services across all areas of administration. E-governance is a popular terminology today. It basically involves use of technology to reform government work. Increasingly, geospatial technology is becoming the core to many IT programmes in the government. From public utilities to land records to internal security, we are seeing deployment of geospatial technology. With increased use of geospatial technology governance processes are maturing from e-governance to g-governance. G-governance can be defined as the use of geospatial technology to spatially enable policy-makers take informed decisions. Geospatial technology essentially provides a framework for integrated problem solving. To solve a problem, we need to first understand it. Geospatial technology enables us to understand problems better because it presents issues visually, in a more understandable manner. To move towards g-governance we need to see how egovernance programmes can get a geospatial layer. Data integration for better governance Most government programmes operate in silos. To take quick and informed decisions it is important to integrate information. So for example, can we integrate land records
JANUARY 2013