e-governance?

e-governance is about the use of information technology to raise the quality of the services that governments deliver to citizens and businesses. It is expected that it is also reinforce the connection between public officials and communities thereby leading to a stronger, more accountable and inclusive democracy in future.
Putting the “e” on services, such as e-health, e-participation, e-voting, e-environment or e-weather, serves as a guide to the wider subject matter of e-governance, which can, in time, be imprinted on the public mind. More importantly, the use of terms such as e-governance leads to the creation of an identifiable discipline. This widens the development of the subject beyond the parameters of simply government boundaries to the larger spheres of civil society, associations, unions, the business community, international organizations and the academic world.

The “e” world only leads to a lessening of accountability of the activities in which any government is engaged. In society, it is the identifying of concepts through words and phrases that leads to cohesion and order. Subject matters create an ambience between stakeholders throughout the society. For example, “public transportation” or “environmental” issues are phrases understood by citizens who then relate them in their minds to the mass movements of our times. To move away from this identification that has been communicated through government websites, at the political level and in the media.
“The use of information and communication technologies in public administrations combined with organizational change and new skills in order to improve public services and democratic processes and strengthen support to public policies. In e-governance, the pathologies go beyond disenfranchisement, defined as citizens using the web to become ever more narrowly enfranchised.