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eWorld Forum 2012

J Satyanarayanaaddressing the

inaugural sessionof eWorld Forum

2012

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

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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

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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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