Role of Connectivity in Citizen Centered E-Governance in Myanmar: Learning from Indian Experience
Globally, e-Governance has been fast maturing for rendering citizens centered services. Many nations have recognized the need to declare e-Governance as part of their national agenda and development goals. Despite growing acceptance of e-Governance as a service and infrastructure, many nations still face challenges of digital divide. Especially, these challenges with varying degrees are still prevalent in developing nations. However, there is opportunity for many nations who are in planning stage to learn from other nations to adopt a benchmarked process for e-Governance. Many successful e-Governance plans suggest for supporting telecommunication infrastructure at a national level with due importance on connectivity in the access layer of the service delivery architecture. In this paper, case of Myanmar is discussed which is in the early stage of adoption of e-Governance plan. It is now investing in deployment of connectivity plan. India being a neighboring country has similar demographic, social and cultural atmosphere and having experienced in managing e-Governance project life cycle; provides scope for consideration for Myanmar e-Governance project.