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How Developing Countries Can Make A Successful Transition To EGovernance

By: Godwin C. Nwaogwugwu

June, 2006

CEO ExposureWorld Communications Services (http://www.exposureworld.net )

What Is E-Governance:

In a publication by the  United Nation’s Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), EGovernance is defined as “The public sector’s use of information and communication technologies with the aim of improving information and service delivery, encouraging citizen participation in the decision-making process and making government more accountable, transparent and effective.” EGovernance, therefore, involves the integration of public services to form an open, extensible and scalable platform for an online, one-stop government improving a Citizen to Government (C2G), and Government to Citizen (G2C) communication.

Advantages of EGovernance:

Imagine:

• A government passport office without waiting lines?
• Bidding for a government contract right from your home office with your computer?
• Sending email to a State Governor, and receiving a response within 1 hour?
• Logging onto the website of the Ministry of Finance and downloading a copy of the state budget allocation, and how state funds are being utilized?
• An open transparent government where citizens can interact with public officers 24 hrs a day, seven days a week?

EGovernance if applied well, will:

• Cut costs through savings in paper, printing, mailing and personnel
• Improve efficiency by reducing bureaucratic red-tapes
• Facilitate economic development by tapping into the vast resources available at the ever-growing digital global community
• Improve citizen participation in governance, and interaction with public officials.

If banks could achieve a 24 X 7 banking through Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and online banking, why shouldn’t governments in developing countries do same?

Europe Did It..

On December 15, 2004, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Recommendation Rec (2004)15 on electronic governance. One of its recommendations was that "ICT should be used to improve access to and communication with officials and elected representatives and to enhance communication within and between public authorities at all levels" (Recommendation Rec (2004)15, Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe). European countries embraced EGovernance because it not only improves open governance, but also a vehicle for economic development.

E-Gov Success Stories Elsewhere:

Bellow are some instances, where E-governance has been deployed successfully either at departmental, municipal, state, or national level:

Universities and Colleges Admission Service, Norway: From 2000, college applicants could use the internet to file college applications. The scale of internet use in Norway rose from 17% in 2000 to 96.4% in 2006, saving a substantial amount of work on scanning and other paper handling.

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