Draft Conference Schedule Outline

  Day 1:  March 14, 2004 Sunday


08:30 am  – 09:45 am          Registration

10:00 am – 11:00 am           Inaugural Session

11:00 am – 11:15 am           Tea

11:15 am – 01:30 pm           Session -1

E     Citizens & e-service delivery

Good governance is primarily concerned with the relationship between the citizens and the government. The key issue is fulfillment of legitimate needs and aspirations of the citizens, that is, high quality of government services in good time and at minimum cost. The session would be devoted to the service delivery mechanism for governance that is citizen-centric.  The speakers are expected to identify the processes that, if enabled with information and communication technology, would significantly improve the service delivery system at all levels of the governmental hierarchy.

                                    Participants

1)     Sanjay Jaju
         Collector & District Magistrate
        West Godavari District, AP 

2)    Krishnan
        President & CEO
        Life Line to Business, Chennai

3)    Prof.Dr.V.Prithviraj
        Director, Information Technology Department
        Government of Pondicherry

01:30 pm – 02:30 pm           Lunch

02.30 pm – 04:30 pm           Session - 2

E     Infrastructure for  e-governance & Assessment of impact of e-governance initiatives

          Design of a framework for benchmarking (both result
       benchmarking  and process benchmarking)

The key to successful implementation of any e-governance initiative is the availability of adequate infrastructure for the service delivery system. Apart from deployment of requisite computing power and software systems for management of governmental business processes, requirements of communication networks, security systems and tools, and support services, etc must be in place before deployment of any e-governance application.

Participants

1)     Dr. Shankar Prasad
                     Inkroma e-business Solution Pvt Ltd,
                    Bangalore – India

2)     Suresh Menon on Health e-governance
                 Sushma Multimedia

3)     Kharat Vinod Tryambak
                    Manager-Research
                    MITRA, New Delhi

4)    Krishna Mohan J
                    Hyderabad

5)    Rajiv Ranjan
                    ICT Specialist, UNDP, Bhubaneswar

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm           Tea

05.00pm  -  06.00 pm           Road Ahead for India e-governance group

Moderated by Sameer Sachdeva          

08:00 pm – 10:00 pm           Conference Dinner

 Day 2:  March 15, 2004 Monday

 06:30 am onwards                Conference Breakfast

 07:30 am – 11:00 am           Field Visit and Interaction with functionaries and e seva groups
                                                 and  villagers at Denduluru. 

 11:00 am – 11:30 am           Tea

 11:30 am  – 01:30 pm          Session - 3  

E     Security issues in e-governance and information assurance       requirements 

Need for intranet digital signature for e-governance

                                                            Next Generation Networks - Security Challenges 

E     Stakeholders in e-governance

Effective e-governance is possible only with deep sense of involvement, active participation, and firm commitment of all the stakeholders of the governance process. Apart from the direct stakeholders, involvement of the citizens’ forums, NGOs, regulatory and tax authorities, and financial institutions is essential for success of the e-governance initiative. It would be worthwhile for governmental agencies to collaborate and partner with the professional fraternity in the private sector and leverage their capabilities. This may include private equity in creation of IT infrastructure for e-governance.  The session will deal with the role of private sector, NGOs and others as partners in e-governance.

                              Participants

1)    S D SUDARSAN
                    Member (Senior Research Staff)
                    CRL-BEL, Jalahalli, Bangalore

2)    Avinash Chaurasia
                    Force3 

                                                      3)     Prema Narsimhan
                                                              Azim Premji Foundation

                                                      4)     Kavitha Kumari
                                                               Manager, Aquachoupal, ITC Limited IBD

 01:30 pm – 02:30 pm           Lunch

 02:30 am – 04:30 pm           Session - 4 

E     Technology Solutions for e-governance

 Web based technology or standalone technology for e-governance

 Usefulness of Open source systems for e-governance.

 Multi lingual interface – front end and database interface, the  significance of unicode standard for Indian e-gov scenario.

The session on Technology Solutions will deal with hardware, software, networking, and application solutions for e-governance applications and related issues of standardization, costs, etc. 

Participants

1)   C.Umashankar IAS., (TamilNadu Cadre)
                  e-governance Expert and Member
                  India e-gov group.

 2)   P.G.Ponnapa
                   CEO, n-logue Communications Pvt Ltd,
                   Chennai

 3)   Dr. Jyoti Jaju
                   WHO Consultant

4)    Janakiram MSV
                    Microsoft Corporation India, Bangalore

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm           Tea

05:00 pm – 06:00 pm           Concluding session

ุ      Issues  in e-governance implementation

ุ   Conference Summing up

ุ      Group Perspective and Agenda for Action

ุ      Vote of Thanks

 07:30 pm – 09:30 pm           Cultural Evening and Dinner at Collector’s bungalow 

 

Practical Information on Conference

Conference Venue: DATS Family Club, Vatluru, Eluru (Andhra Pradesh)

Web Site       www.westgodavari.org                

Climate          The weather in Eluru in March would be warm and generally pleasant with clear skies and plenty of sunshine.  The temperature would normally range between 200C to a maximum of 360C.  

Travel information 

                        The District West Godavari is on the South Eastern Coast of India in the state of Andhra Pradesh.  The district headquarter is known as Eluru and is on the train route and has direct trains from New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Chennai.  One can take direct train to Eluru.  Eluru is 65kms away from Vijayawada.  Pick up can be organised from Vijayawada for those who come to Vijayawada.  Vijayawada is on the train route from New Delhi/Howrah to Chennai.   

There is a daily flight from Deccan Airways from Hyderabad to Gannavaram (Vijayawada) which can also be used by the participants. 

The train/flight schedules are enclosed with this conference pack.

 Accommodation

The accommodation for all the participants would be organized locally at our end. 

Contact Numbers  

                        Sanjay Jaju, IAS
                        Collector & District Magistrate
                        West Godavari District, AP, India
                         Phones: +91 8812 231050 (Off),       +91 8812 231844 (Fax)
                         Mobile: 09849132344

                        Email: sjaju1@rediffmail.com, sjaju26@yahoo.com