EReadiness Rajendra Man Banepali Knowledge Management Associate Chair

E-Readiness Rajendra Man Banepali Knowledge Management Associate & Chair of UN Inter-Agency IT Taskforce United Nations Nepal Email: banepali@un. org January 2015

E-Readiness • Preparedness to get electronics (e) service • Ability to acquire e-services – pursue value creation opportunities • A Study of scenario of using e-business, e-government

Domain of e-readiness Access Capacity • Infrastructure • Services • Social Factors • Economic factors • Policies factors Opportunity • Opportunity penetration • Specific Applications

Access • Infrastructure • Telecommunications • ISPs • Vendors • Services • Portal as services (government e-services) • Payment gateway • Tele-center, Cyber

Capacity • Social factors • Acceptance of technology, e-culture • Culture (e-culture), Value (weight of i. Phone), Norms • Trust • Economic factors • Income, School, Health • GDP/GNP of country • Policy factors • Government policies (i. e. Gov. cut down 33% of budget during election) • Security issues in India to purchase SIM (I am living without mobile communications since last 15 days. )

Opportunity • Opportunity penetration • Social problem and issues (i. e. Distance Communication) • Need assessment of technology to translate social process into e-services using appropriate technology (i. e. Telecom, Facebook) • Implementation (i. e. Mobile, Internet) • Specific Applications • • E-banking Land records E-Tax Vital-data registration – birth, marriage, migration, and death

Analyze in de’ journey Kathmandu, Nepal to Rajasthan, India

Delhi Metro • Access • Rich telecom – Airtel; Vodafon, !dea • ISPs • Capacity • Good income, educations (i. e. afford a smart phone) • Faster earning and rapid expending • Opportunity • Busy schedule with various technology (Mass transportation, digital intervention)

Churu platform • Access • Low reach of telecom – Airtel; Vodafon, !dea • Lack of ISPs • Capacity • Low income, educations (i. e. General phone) • Opportunity • Forming and some local business with limited technology (Express Mass transportation, less digital intervention)

Jhunjhunu Rajasthan

Mehanati Cha • Access • Low reach of telecom – Airtel; Vodafon, !dea • Lack of ISPs • Capacity • Low income (Labor), No educations, No eculture, senior citizen, Hanuman Believer, Less adoptability culture => No Mobile • Opportunity • Engage in local village business with social services – way to Hanuman mandir made within 6 months and by pass walking road within 2 days. Consider as Bhakta of Hanuman and no need of digital alarm to wake up at 4 o’clock every day, even no watch but very sharp in timing

Social value is focus on religion and norms than technology – rich social values in Rajasthan • Matka is placed for drinking water for Birds as villagers believe in SEWA according to religion.

Guard wala Chaha – Laxmi Narayan • Access • Low reach of telecom – Airtel; Vodafon, !dea • Lack of ISPs • Capacity • No income (Begging), No educations, No e-culture, senior citizen (71 yrs - 1943), Less adoptability culture => No Mobile • Opportunity • Retired home guard, Traffic Volunteer – officially police had recommended and to avoid bus fare too, engage in local village business with social services

Official documents of – Laxmi Narayan

E-readiness of Jhunjhunu • Index of e-readiness of Jhunjhunu (? ) • Necessary • Will be very interesting • Many hurdles for external due to cultural sensitivity

Discussion • Q&A Rajendra Man Banepali Ph. D. Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering Singhania University Web: rajendrabanepali. wordpress. com