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Kathmandu. The ‘e-Governance Blueprint’ has been made public with a strategy to increase economic transparency and competitiveness through electronic governance.
The e-Governance Board under the Prime Minister’s Office has made the electronic governance (e-Governance) Blueprint public and sought opinions and suggestions within seven days.
The board says that the ‘e-Governance Blueprint’ has been prepared to bring about a transformative change in the current state of governance through digital technology, making public services paperless and without physical presence.
The draft of the Blueprint prepared on Magh 14 was made public today by the e-Governance Board. CEO Dipesh Bista gave the information. Bista said that earlier, the draft of the blueprint was discussed and interacted with stakeholders at various stages, as well as opinions and suggestions were taken.
The blueprint mentions making public services tangible, agile, transparent, accountable and effective through digital transformation.
‘In this concept, through the use of digital technology, the situation of having to submit the same type of information and personal data repeatedly during interaction and service delivery between citizens and public service providers will be simplified,’ the board said.
The government will build the necessary infrastructure for the digital system in the country, build policy and legal structures, develop institutional capacity and implement governance related to digital governance. The board says its objective is to drive and facilitate innovation, research and development.
The blueprint has identified seven different strategic pillars for digital transformation. These include a clear management framework for digital governance, legal and regulatory framework, regular development of digital champions, digital literacy and skills development, digital standards, guidelines formulation and implementation, strong regional and international cooperation and innovation, research and development.
The board says that the blueprint has absorbed the core essence of documents such as the Information and Communication Technology Policy, 2072, Government Enterprises Architecture Guidelines, 2076, and Digital Nepal Framework, 2076.
It is also expected that the development of information technology and the growing attraction towards it will be useful in creating pressure to make public service delivery more transparent and effective by strengthening inter-agency coordination through data exchange networks. .
Also, since the need for a national strategic document has been felt to transform the existing state of public service delivery through digital technology, the e-Governance Blueprint has been prepared taking into account the provisions of the Global Digital Compact, Government Stack and other internationally established models.
The blueprint states that e-Governance will be promoted on the basis of development, strengthening and use of common infrastructure and standards, innovation and procedural simplicity in public service delivery, guaranteeing security and privacy from the planning stage onwards, ensuring policy coherence in digital project development, ensuring universal access to services provided through digital means, consistency with the concept of transparency and open data, innovation, research and development. .
The blueprint has taken the board’s limited role in policy matters, functional problems, and problems related to the management framework required for e-governance as challenges to maintain the country’s digital good governance.
Also, problems related to the legal and regulatory framework, technical and managerial limitations to transformative changes in the existing state of digital services, problems in digital literacy, skill development expansion, and lack of citizen service centers to facilitate public service delivery have also been mentioned as challenges.
The blueprint has also mentioned problems in formulating and implementing digital standards and guidelines, problems in strengthening regional and international cooperation, data exchange between all three levels of government, and It has been mentioned that there are some challenges in making the issue of public procurement more transparent and competitive.
After the approval of the blueprint, various activities for the next three years have also been decided. These include drafting the Electronic Governance Act, restructuring the Department of Information Technology, establishing a Data Protection Authority, establishing a data exchange platform, linking digital signatures with national identity cards, and establishing a Citizen Service Center.
The final draft of the e-governance blueprint prepared by an international consultant with the technical assistance of the United Nations Development Program was received on April 17 and was then internalized from a Nepalese perspective.
After the final draft of the blueprint was submitted by the Nepali consultant on October 14, it was finalized on January 14. Subsequently, the fifth meeting of the e-Governance Board, chaired by the Chief Secretary to the government, on Magh 15, decided to send the draft blueprint to the concerned bodies for consultation.
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