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e-governance awards distributed

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that conventional modes of governance were fast giving way to governance using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Kerala to ensure efficiency in reaching services to the people and transparency in administration. All departments under the State government were drawing up their own e-governance programmes and the effort now was to bring all these programmes under a single umbrella, he said, while distributing the newly instituted e-governance awards to departments and individuals who had displayed praiseworthy initiatives in the ongoing transition to a new style of administration. “Any transition from a system that had been there for a very long time is a difficult one. The winners of the awards are those who had worked with commitment to make it possible,” he said. Thrissur Collectorate won the award for best ‘online service and e-filing’ initiative for its innovative use of ICT to facilitate equitable and environmentally sensitive sand-mining and sand distribution within the district. The ‘best website’ recognition went to Kerala Tourism Department for its web portal that integrates multiple services aimed at consolidating Kerala’s leadership in tourism sector. Palakkad Collectorate won the award under the ‘digital file flow category’ that was now helping the district to optimise revenue collection. The ‘m-governance’ award went to Kozhikode collectorate for its innovative use of mobile phone messaging technology to improve the people’s access to health services in the district. The award for the programme ‘Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala’ (SPARK) award was given to the Electrical Inspectorate Department for speedy implementation of the solutions under the programme across the State. The award for ‘local language content development and maximum utilisation of Akshaya Centres’ was given to the Commercial Taxes Department. Thrissur District Collector V.K. Baby, Director of Kerala University Computer Centre A. Ajayakumar and Special Law Secretary John Britto received ‘leadership awards’ for e-governance initiatives. A special jury award was shared by the Universities of Kerala and Calicut for using ICT to automate a wide spectrum of their activities. Other award winners include Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala (for a web-driven e-krishi initiative), Regional Cancer Centre (telemedicine initiative), Kerala State IT Mission and Aids Control Society (web portals) and Stationery Department and Registrar of Cooperatives (SPARK initiative). Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, India and SAARC Region, Symantec Corporation, delivered the keynote address on ‘The New IT Agenda: Ensuring Cyber Security to Combat Cyber Crimes.’ Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan, IT Secretary Ajaykumar and IT writer Anand Parthasarathy were among those who addressed the function.

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