Issues in the design of training programmes on e-governance

Abstract

The impact that an e-governance initiative can make depends very much on not only the relevance of the initiative, but also the capabilities of the officers who are involved with the initiative during the various phases of its life cycle. While training programmes wholly devoted to e-governance, particularly aimed at the higher levels of government, are not very common, exposure to e-governance concepts is given often as part of other government training programmes. While there have been some isolated efforts at offering programmes entirely devoted to training top level government officials in the field of e-governance, there is no systematic study related to their impact assessment and on how to improve and roll them out in different parts of the country.