Notes for BSc CSIT

  Major Challenges Facing Government in Adopting and Implementing DataWarehouse According to (Jiawei Han et al), major challenges faced by data warehouse while implementing effectively in government are: the need for scalability, reliability, security concerns, traditional and conventional practices, open standards and interoperability, resole potential legal issues, redefine the roles of IT workforce, access the Return on Investment (ROI) of data warehouse, lack of skilled manpower and technologies. However, in the context of Nepal, the challenges facing the adoption and implementation of a data warehouse are mentioned here : 1) E-Readiness: As discussed earlier, Nepal has not succeeded to access its degree in the status of e-readiness.According to the Economic Intelligence Unit, Nepal is ranked 135th position out of 193. Hard work thus, is seen to overcome this situation. Healthy and careful strategies are needed to create an enabling environment to improve e-readiness. 2) Stand...

 Smart Nagarpalika Compúterization of Urban Local Bodies (Municipalities)  The urban local bodies in the towns and cities of the country are autonomous and are managed by elected representatives. These bodies, also known as Municipalities, are responsible for the management and upkeep of the civic amenities in the town or the city. For this purpose, they collect taxes such as property tax, water tax, etc. which form the revenue for the local body/municipality. In addition, the local body is also responsible for the registration of births and deaths, and the issue of building permissions and trade licenses. Following is the comprehensive list of functions executed by municipality/local body: - Birth and deaths registrations - Property tax - Water tap connections and charges - Advertisement tax - Financial accounting -Building permissions - Grievance redressal - Project and works monitoring system (PROMS)  - Dangerous and offensive trade license - Assets and inventory ...

 E-Khazana  In tune with the policy initiative taken up by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for effective es utilization of Information Technology as part of the e-Governance project, National Informatics Centre, Hyderabad has taken up online computerization for its Districts Treasury (DTO), Sub Treasury (STO) and Pay and Accounts Offices (PAO) Offices in 330 locations across the state. E-Khazana is an online application that takes care of entry-level validation and budget control and pre-audit rules at the Auditor level and finally for the issue of cheque/pass order at the passing level. After reconciliation with the bank, monthly accounts will be generated for submission to Accountant General. The Administrators' role is very important in this application as he will be responsible for                   -  Assigning the roles.                    -  Watching budget expendit...

 IT in Judiciary The judiciary is a system of courts that interpret and apply the law. The role of the courts is to decide cases by determining the relevant facts and the relevant law and applying the relevant facts to the relevant law. The Indian Judiciary administers a common law system in which customs, securities, and legislation, all codify the law of the land. Technology has proven its role in enhancing efficiency, improving access, as well as encouraging transparency, accountability, and adherence to timelines in dealing with legal matters. India has taken a variety of measures to automate processes within the judiciary with an aim to improve efficiency and eliminate the time lost in unproductive work. Some of the initiatives are: easy accessibility to online case records and previous judicial pronouncements, reducing dependency on stenographers by utilizing voice recognition software, usage of video conferencing facilities to increase the reach of courts, case management sy...

 Bhoomi is a project jointly funded by the Government of India and the Government of Karnataka to digitize the paper land records and create a software mechanism to control changes to the land registry in Karnataka. The project was designed to eliminate the long-standing problem of inefficiency and corruption in the maintenance of land records at dispersed and poorly supervised and audited block-level offices known as "taluka" offices in South India and "tehsildar" offices in North India. The project development and implementation were done by National Informatics Centre. Many experiments with computerization have failed due to corruption and other factors. Implementation of Land record computerization has been difficult in India. Bhoomi succeeded because there was a champion who worked a 15-hour day for over 12 months, devoting 80% of his time to the project. Minimizing resistance from staff by harnessing political support was an important contributory factor. Exte...

Sachivalaya Vahini or, E-Governance in Secretariat  Secretariat is the highest policy-making body and the apex seat of the State government. It is a repository of a wealth of governmental knowledge, which needs to be managed efficiently for achieving the desired objectives.  In its capacity as the apex policy-making and decision-making authority at the State government level, the Secretariat has to deal with a large number of departments, organizations, and individuals.  This process involves an enormous amount of communication, besides holding, maintaining, and processing large volumes of data files or other formats. Conventionally, all the files were created and maintained manually resulting in a very slow and inefficient process. Project initiated by Government of Karnataka, Bangalore through the help of Directorate of Information Technology (DIT) to promote e-governance & to introduce the concept of information and knowledge management.   Connects more t...

 Collectorate Collectorate 2000 is a program of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to design, develop and install a new suite of software modules for use in the computerization of Collectorates. This case study surveys the background, features, and capabilities of the software modules used in the computerization of Collectorates in Andhra Pradesh. During the late 1980s, NIC took up the NICNET program for implementing the All Ind Satellite-based Government Informatics Network connecting various District Collectorales State Government Secretariate, and Central Government Offices in Delhi through a VSAT based network called NICNET. In 1988, VSATs have been installed (C200 model) in all District Collectorates with a speed of 1.2 kbps along with one computer system and two Technical Officers of NIC. Subsequently, in the mid 199s, the NICNET facility was enhanced with IPA/FTDMA VSAT Earth Station with a speed of 64 kbps (shared) for Internet browsing purposes in the Collectorate. Func...