Issues of Integration in E-government Applications

(Gist of paper submitted by me on National Conference on E-Governance and its Applications, Bangalore, 2008)

A number of issues, some old and some new, have arisen in e-governance Application, for example,
(i) Lack of standardization ( For example, similar projects are carried out by different states using incompatible database and different application standards. Most of application software are built on proprietary Software’s.
(ii) Reverse compatibility of application with legacy systems are missing.
(iii) The Physical (IT) Infrastructures are procured before building the application or digitizing the data.
(iv) Physical security is emphasized, whereas the Logical and application security is left to vendors.
(v) Shortage of Skilled Manpower.
(vi) Lack of understanding among the implementing agencies of components of e-governance application that can be outsourced or can be carried out in-house.
(vii) IT implementation in government is mostly vendor driven.