E-governance maturity model

Organized and well-publicized efforts towards implementing e-governance, in India, Were initiated in the year 1998 with the formulation of National IT Task Force. The Task Force has been constituted to guide the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives in the country with e-governance as one of the main focal points in its agenda. However, some aspects of e-governance are already being practiced in the country, silently, for more than two decades now, though the efforts have not been very concerted. As a result, a varying degree of e-governance implementations are observed across the country. An attempt is being made to propose an E-governance Maturity Model (EMM) that could be used to measure the e-governance efforts undertaken by various government organizations in the country. EMM proposes six levels of maturity encompassing varying degree of initiatives, from the lowest to the highest. Besides, assessing the current status of e-governance, the model also suggests future direction to attain a higher level of maturity in context of e-governance.