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Two Days Workshop on ‘Building Capacity for Impact Assessment of e-Government Projects’ sponsored by the Department of Information Technology (DIT)
The Centre for E-governance, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad will be organising a two-day workshop on ‘Building Capacity for Impact Assessment of e-Government Projects’ on February 26 and 27. The workshop, which is sponsored by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), GoI, will be held at the International Management Development Centre of IIMA.
IT Secretaries from several states, academics, representatives of eleven market research agencies and program managers from DIT including Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary in DIT, who heads the national e-governance plan (NEGP) will participate in the programme. The workshop is based on a World Bank funded research project undertaken by a team led by Professor Subhash Bhatnagar. Bhatnagar has been providing advice to the World Bank in its e-governance activities for the last 6 years. Impact on citizens, business clients and government agencies were assessed for eight mature e-government projects from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat in the study.
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