[icernet] Government by computer

[Arul Selvan]

It is true that a big screen is mounted on Mr Naidu's office wall, to 
monitor activities at 28 
eSeva
 centres in Hyderabad, where citizens 
can pay utility bills, register births and deaths, and conduct many 
other dealings with the government. So is the man who runs a poor, 
drought-ridden state, where 40% of the 76m people cannot read, 
preoccupied with an irrelevant exercise in e-government? Mr Naidu's fans 
say the exercise is a bold experiment with national implications: 
harnessing India's prowess in information technology to benefit its 
poor. Other state governments have put some of their services online. 
None has gone so far as Andhra Pradesh.


Source:
http://www.economist.com/World/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1649878