Title: New internet-based systems for management of sponsored research and conferences: a contribution towards e-governance in India

Authors: K. Sridharan, S.S. Kohli

Addresses: Department of Electrical Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. ' Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India

Abstract: There is an increasing interest in e-governance for better reachability of government services to citizens. This paper is on our efforts to automate a key activity of the science and technology department of the government of India. In particular, we present the design and development of a comprehensive Web-based system for inviting and processing research proposals. The architecture presented is generic in that extensions to multiple applications such as conference and event management are straightforward. We present the challenges in the automation process, discuss prior work, and then present novel aspects of our system. The system is based on PHP and MySQL.

Keywords: sponsored research management; electronic conference manager; PHP; HTML; MySQL; databases; e-governance; electronic governance; India; science and technology; internet; research proposals; conference management; event management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2007.014345

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2007 Vol.1 No.1, pp.94 - 109

Published online: 02 Jul 2007 *

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