Title: Conceptualising m-government implementation in the state of Jharkhand

Authors: Yashwant Kumar

Addresses: National Informatics Center, MITC, Government of India, Jharkhand State Unit, Engineer's Hostel-2, Ranchi, Jharkhand 834003, India

Abstract: This paper contributes to the issue of m-government implementations by exploring ICT and Electronic Government (e-government) in the Jharkhand State, and sheds light on the role of m-government applications for enhancing information and service delivery to business, employees, citizen and government internal effectiveness and efficiency. This also figures out the relevance of security mechanism and potential role that m-government can play in the development of Jharkhand in particular rural Jharkhand. The research is based on current trend of e-government implementations in Jharkhand. This concept can be rolled out in other places with minor modification.

Keywords: m-government; mobile government; government services; security; ICT; e-government; electronic government; rural India; mobile services; mobile communications; m-services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2010.032732

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2010 Vol.3 No.1, pp.85 - 98

Published online: 18 Apr 2010 *

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