Do We realize the vision of e-governance projects?
Krunal Patel (કૃણાલ પટેલ)
India Business leader || Board Member || Profit and Loss management (All Views Personal)
Every Time when there is a new head of department , either an IAS officer taking charge of new office or minister taking new role in ministry there is a fresh thought to change somethings with objective to improve.
E-governance becomes an obvious choice.
The major driver in this change is a political drive to achieve the mileage but there is also a very deep administrative business case which is well written and approved in the FILE.
Today I would discuss on the second aspect of what was approved ? Or what was to be achieved? And what actually happens ?
Every project has three most important component which include
A.Detailed project report- which outlines majorly the problem, solution, approach and budget
B. Consultant or expert
C. Execution Plan - Procure to realize the objective
Broadly the following but not limited to are high level issues in the vision realization of large government IT project
Real Business case : vendors drive project majorly for selling something.
Recommendation: Government should adopt projects based on a thorough news analysis.
Procurement: while I agree that the government departments are custodian of public money but the public procurement process like the L1 ( Lowest bidder) wins actually pushes the bidder to give bare minimum or at tome sub-optimal resources.
Recommendation : Government should evaluate and adopt options like Quality and cost based tendering system or Public private partnership
Continuity : In the current bureaucratic set upt transfers are the unavoidable. Once the head is transferred there is no execution team either to own the project and even execute.
Recommendation: government departments should in each project whether small or large should have a strong management and technical team which is agnostics to the decision makers but capable as a unit to execute the project.
Adherence to schedule : all the stakeholders in the project that is government department and the supplier or implementation partner often delay the schedule due to various reason like resources not available or approval authority not available.
Recommendation: whether government or supplier should very strictly follow the project plan.
All views are personal.
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Positioning, "The Battle for the Mind"
8yWhile the points are well phrased... but remain highly debatable... While it is indeed a nation-wide dream to attain "DIgital India", through e-Governance activities, However the moral responsibility lies with every individual stake holder including each one of us... Unless we all on a National scale, take a Pledge and respond towards addressing these intermittent issues and enact towards filling the said GAP's, shall otherwise remain a piped dream, forever...
CEO at NITCON
8ygud points !. wud like to add here that there is huge gap between two: the industry and the government . Nobody is addressing the GAPs. what is this gap? The government and the bureaucrats work in a defined frame-work. Some changes were seen in last couple of years. But the same is not enough to catch-up with the tech pace. This is a GAP. Similarly one may find many GAPs. How to address these GAPs? Any ideas ? do share.
Business Leader - Enterprise Business
8yNice short and crisp note on government projects lifecycle...
Platform & Technology Evangelist; Partnering with customers in their Business Transformation & Innovation Journey.
8yWell written. Crucial points of an e-governance project components are covered in a concise manner.