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Convergence in rural e-governance services for sustainable development: a model driven study in Indian context

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Innovations in rendering rural e-governance services have remained a challenging area. Though globally e-governance is fast attaining maturity in the life cycle, there are pitfalls to fully garner the benefits of technology driven solutions aimed at rural e-governance. Two major constraints in transforming the opportunities created by benchmarked e-governance services to citizen oriented rural e-governance are i) convergence in rural e-governance services; and ii) creating avenues for disruptive rural e-governance. In this paper, it is argued that convergence and rural e-governance are two essential contributors for sustainable development and disruptive rural e-governance will emerge from such transformation. In order to validate this argument, the paper aims to model the contributions of convergence and rural e-governance services for sustainable development. The model is validated through primary surveys for fitness.

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ICEGOV '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
October 2014
563 pages
ISBN:9781605586113
DOI:10.1145/2691195
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  1. citizen centered governance
  2. convergence
  3. e-participation
  4. models
  5. rural E-Governance services
  6. sustainable development

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