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Furthermore, e-government uses one-way communication protocol whereas e-governance uses two-way
communication protocol. Establishing the identity of the end beneficiary is a challenge in all citizen-centric
services. Statistical information published by governments and global bodies do not always reveal the facts.
The intention of e-governance is to down on the unwanted interference of too many layers while delivering
governmental services. It depends on good infrastructural setup with the support of local processes and
parameters for governments to reach their citizens or end beneficiaries. A budget for planning,
development, and growth can be derived from well laid out e-governance systems.
Government to citizen
The goal of government-to-citizen (G2C) e-governance is to offer a variety of ICT services to citizens in an
efficient and economical manner and to strengthen the relationship between government and citizens using
technology.
There are several methods of G2C e-governance. Two-way communication allows citizens to instant
message directly with public administrators, and cast remote electronic votes (electronic voting) and instant
opinion voting. These are examples of e-Participation. Other examples included the payment of taxes and
services that can be completed online or over the phone. Mundane services such as name or address
changes, applying for services or grants, or transferring existing services are more convenient and no longer
have to be completed face to face.[3]
By country
G2C e-governance is unbalanced across the globe as not everyone has Internet access and computing skills,
but the United States, European Union, and Asia are ranked the top three in development.
The Federal Government of the United States has a broad framework of G2C technology to enhance
citizen access to Government information and services. benefits.gov is an official US government website
that informs citizens of benefits they are eligible for and provides information on how to apply for
assistance. US State Governments also engage in G2C interaction through the Department of
Transportation, Department of Public Safety, United States Department of Health and Human Services,
United States Department of Education, and others.[4] As with e-governance on the global level, G2C
services vary from state to state. The Digital States Survey ranks states on social measures, digital
democracy, e-commerce, taxation, and revenue. The 2012 report shows Michigan and Utah in the lead and
Florida and Idaho with the lowest scores.[4] Municipal governments in the United States also use
government-to-customer technology to complete transactions and inform the public. Much like states, cities
are awarded for innovative technology. Government Technology's "Best of the Web 2012" named
Louisville, KY, Arvada, CO, Raleigh, NC, Riverside, CA, and Austin, TX the top five G2C city portals.[5]
European countries were ranked second among all geographic regions. The Single Point of Access for
Citizens of Europe supports travel within Europe and Europe is a 1999 initiative supporting an online
government. Main focuses are to provide public information, allow customers to have access to basic public
services, simplify online procedures, and promote electronic signatures.[4] Estonia is the first and the only
country[6] in the world with e-residency which enables anyone in the world outside Estonia to access
Estonian online services. One caveat of the Estonia e-residency program is that it does not give e-residents
physical rights to the country. This means that unless the e-resident buys land they do not get to participate
in the democratic processes. The benefit to e-residents is the opportunity to develop business in the digital
European Union market. Neighboring Lithuania launched a similar e-Residency program.
Asia is ranked third in comparison, and there are diverse G2C programs between countries. Singapore's
eCitizen Portal is an organized single access point to government information and services. South Korea's
Home Tax Service (HTS) provides citizens with 24/7 online services such as tax declaration. Taiwan has
top ranking G2C technology including an online motor vehicle services system, which provides 21
applications and payment services to citizens.[4] India's e-governance programs have found success in
regional areas. This is likely due to the ability to meet the language and literacy differences among their
constituents.
Concerns
A full switch to government-to-citizen e-governance will cost a large amount of money in development and
implementation.[3] In addition, government agencies do not always engage citizens in the development of
their e-gov services or accept feedback. Customers identified the following barriers to government-to-
customer e-governance: not everyone has Internet access, especially in rural or low-income areas, G2C
technology can be problematic for citizens who lack computing skills. Some G2C sites have technology
requirements (such as browser requirements and plug-ins) that won't allow access to certain services,
language barriers, the necessity for an e-mail address to access certain services, and a lack of privacy.[8]
Government to employees
E-governance to Employee partnership (G2E) Is one of four main primary interactions in the delivery
model of E-governance. It is the relationship between online tools, sources, and articles that help employees
to maintain the communication with the government and their own companies. E-governance relationship
with Employees allows new learning technology in one simple place as the computer. Documents can now
be stored and shared with other colleagues online.[9]
E-governance makes it possible for employees to become paperless and makes it easy for employees to
send important documents back and forth to colleagues all over the world instead of having to print out
these records or fax[10] G2E services also include software for maintaining personal information and
records of employees. Some of the benefits of G2E expansion include:
E-payroll – maintaining the online sources to view paychecks, pay stubs, pay bills, and keep
records for tax information.
E-benefits – be able to look up what benefits an employee is receiving and what benefits
they have a right to.
E-training – allows for new and current employees to regularly maintain the training they
have through the development of new technology and to allow new employees to train and
learn over new materials in one convenient location. E-learning is another way to keep
employees informed on the important materials they need to know through the use of
visuals, animation, videos, etc. It is usually a computer-based learning tool, although not
always. It is also a way for employees to learn at their own pace (distance learning),
although it can be instructor-led.
Maintaining records of personal information – Allows the system to keep all records in one
easy location to update with every single bit of information that is relevant to a personal file.
Examples being social security numbers, tax information, current address, and other
information.[11]
G2E is an effective way to provide e-learning to the employees, bring them together and to promote
knowledge sharing among them.[15] It also gives employees the possibility of accessing information in
regard to compensation and benefits policies, training and learning opportunities and civil rights
laws.[12][15][16] G2E services also include software for maintaining personal information and records of
employees.[16]
G2E is adopted in many countries including the United States, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.[17]
Government to government
E-government
From the start of 1990s e-commerce and e-product, there has rampant integration of e-forms of government
process. Governments have now tried to use the efficiencies of their techniques to cut down on waste. E-
government is a fairly broad subject matter, but all relate to how the services and representation are now
delivered and how they are now being implemented.
Many governments around the world have gradually turned to Information technologies (IT) in an effort to
keep up with today's demands. Historically, many governments in this sphere have only been reactive, but
recently there has been a more proactive approach in developing comparable services such things as e-
commerce and e-business.[18]
Before, the structure emulated private-like business techniques. Recently that has all changed as e-
government begins to make its own plan. Not only does e-government introduce a new form of record
keeping, but it also continues to become more interactive to better the process of delivering services and
promoting constituency participation.
The framework of such an organization is now expected to increase more than ever by becoming efficient
and reducing the time it takes to complete an objective. Some examples include paying utilities, tickets, and
applying for permits. So far, the biggest concern is accessibility to Internet technologies for the average
citizen. In an effort to help, administrations are now trying to aid those who do not have the skills to fully
participate in this new medium of governance, especially now as e-government progressing to more e-
governance though.
An overhaul of the structure is now required as every pre-existing sub-entity must now merge under one
concept of e-government. As a result, Public Policy has also seen changes due to the emerging of
constituent participation and the Internet. Many governments such as Canada's have begun to invest in
developing new mediums of communication of issues and information through virtual communication and
participation. In practice, this has led to several responses and adaptations by interest groups, activist, and
lobbying groups. This new medium has changed the way the polis interacts with government.
Editorial
The purpose to include e-governance to government is to means more efficient in various aspects. Whether
it means to reduce cost by reducing paper clutter, staffing cost, or communicating with private citizens or
public government. E-government brings many advantages to play such as facilitating information delivery,
application process/renewal between both business and private citizen, and participation with the
constituency. There are both internal and external advantages to the emergence of IT in government,
though not all municipalities are alike in size and participation.
In theory, there are currently four major levels of E-government in municipal governments:[19]
These, along with 5 degrees of technical integration and interaction of users include:
The International City/County Management Association and Public Technology Inc. have done surveys
over the effectiveness of this method. The results are indicating that most governments are still in either the
primary stages (stage 1 or 2), which revolves around public service requests. Though application of
integration is now accelerating, there has been little to no instigating research to see its progression as e-
governance to the government. We can only theorize it's still within the primitive stages of e-governance.
Overview
Objective
The strategic objective of e-governance, or in this case G2G is to support and simplify governance for
government, citizens, and businesses. The use of ICT can connect all parties and support processes and
activities. Other objectives are to make government administration more transparent, speedy and
accountable while addressing the society's needs and expectations through efficient public services and
effective interaction between the people, businesses, and government.[20]
Delivery model
Within every of those interaction domains, four sorts of activities Government-to-government model
take place:[21] [22]
Pushing data over the internet, e.g.: regulative services, general holidays, public hearing schedules, issue
briefs, notifications, etc. two-way communications between one governmental department and another,
users will interact in dialogue with agencies and post issues, comments, or requests to the agency.
Conducting transactions, e.g.: Lodging tax returns, applying for services and grants. Governance, e.g.: To
alter the national transition from passive info access to individual participation by:
In the field of networking, the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) puts in place a secure link between
central government departments. It is an IP-based virtual private network based on broadband technology
introduced in April 1998 and further upgraded in February 2004. Among other things, it offers a variety of
advanced services including file transfer and search facilities, directory services, email exchange facilities
(both between network members and over the Internet) as well as voice and video services. An additional
network is currently also under development: the Public Sector Network (PSN) will be the network to
interconnect public authorities (including departments and agencies in England; devolved administrations
and local governments) and facilitate in particular sharing of information and services among each other.[23]
Government to business
Objective
The objective of G2B is to reduce difficulties for business, provide immediate information and enable
digital communication by e-business (XML). In addition, the government should re-use the data in the
report proper, and take advantage of commercial electronic transaction protocol.[24] Government services
are concentrated on the following groups: human services; community services; judicial services; transport
services; land resources; business services; financial services and other.[25] Each of the components listed
above for each cluster of related services to the enterprise.
E-Government provides a greater amount of information that the business needed, also it makes that
information more clear. A key factor in business success is the ability to plan and forecast through data-
driven future. The government collected a lot of economic, demographic and other trends in the data. This
makes the data more accessible to companies which may increase the chance of economic prosperity.
In addition, E-Government can help businesses navigate through government regulations by providing an
intuitive site organization with a wealth of useful applications. The electronic filings of applications for
environmental permits give an example of it. Companies often do not know how, when, and what they
must apply. Therefore, failure to comply with environmental regulations up to 70%, a staggering figure[26]
most likely due to confusion about the requirements, rather than the product of willful disregard of the
law.[27]
Disadvantages
The government should concern that not all people are able to access the internet to gain online government
services. The network reliability, as well as information on government bodies, can influence public
opinion and prejudice hidden agenda. There are many considerations and implementation, designing e-
government, including the potential impact of government and citizens of disintermediation, the impact on
economic, social and political factors, vulnerable to cyber attacks, and disturbances to the status quo in
these areas.[28]
G2B rises the connection between government and businesses. Once the e-government began to develop,
become more sophisticated, people will be forced to interact with e-government in the larger area. This may
result in a lack of privacy for businesses as their government gets their more and more information. In the
worst case, there is so much information in the electron transfer between the government and business, a
system which is like totalitarian could be developed. As the government can access more information, the
loss of privacy could be a cost.[29][30]
The government site does not consider about "potential to reach many users including those who live in
remote areas, are homebound, have low literacy levels, exist on poverty line incomes."[31]
Examples
e-Tender Box (ETB) system[32] – ETB system was developed by Government Logistics
Department (GLD) to replace Electronic Tendering System. Users can use the ETB system
to download the resources and gain the service from the GLD.
e-Procurement Programme[33] – e-Procurement Programme provides a simple, convenient
online ways for suppliers of the participating bureaux/departments (B/Ds) and suppliers of
Government Logistics Department and agree to provide the low-valued goods and
service.[34] One of the last innovative examples is a public e-procurement system Prozorro.
Finance and support for your business[35] – UK Government provide the online financial
help for business, including grants, loans, business guide; what's more, it also offers the
funding for the sunrise businesses (just start) or small-scale firms.
Overview
The main goal of government to business is to increase productivity by giving business more access to
information in a more organize manner while lowering the cost of doing business as well as the ability to
cut "red tape", save time, reduce operational cost and to create a more transparent business environment
when dealing with government.
Lowering cost of doing business – electronic transaction save time compared to conducting
business in person.
Cutting red tape – rules and regulation placed upon business normally take time and are
most likely to cause a delay – in (G2B) will allow a much faster process with fewer delays
and decreasing the number of rules and regulations.
Transparency – More information will be available, making G2B easier to communicate.
1. Reduce the burden on business by adopting a process that enables collecting data once for
multiple uses and streamlining redundant data.
2. Key lines of business: regulations, economic development, trade, permits and licenses,
grants/loans, and asset management.
Conclusion
The overall benefit of e-governance when dealing with business is that it enables the business to perform
more efficiently.
See also
E-governance in the United States
E-learning
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Government by algorithm
Open-source governance
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Turban, Efraim; David King; Dennis Viehland; Jae Lee (2006). Electronic Commerce 2006: A
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p. 335 (https://archive.org/details/electroniccommer00efra/page/335). ISBN 0-13-197667-2.
Government-to-employees (G2E) in Singapore (http://wiki.nus.edu.sg/display/1105sgict/ICT
+Applications-+Government+to+Employees)
Messaging Sub-Systems in the UK Government (https://web.archive.org/web/20100810143
714/http://blogs.sun.com/eclectic/entry/uk_government_messaging_subsystems_1) - an
overview of G2G systems at use in the UK (author: Wayne Horkan)
News on eGovernance (http://egov.eletsonline.com/), India, official website
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) (http://www.bis.gov.uk/), United
Kingdom, official website
G2B portal of the Government of Perm Region (https://web.archive.org/web/2014020709154
9/http://g2b.perm.ru/), Russia, official website