KATHMANDU: If things goes as per plan of the government, the much awaited implementation of e-government master plan (eGMP) will start within five years. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) has included this plan in an integrated draft roadmap prepared to guide IT sector’s development.
The draft of “National IT Roadmap” made public on Wednesday stated that the eGMP will be implemented by 2018 with focus on making available government services through mobile phones. To this effect, the MoSTE officials during an interaction on the draft roadmap said that the master plan will be reviewed and implemented accordingly.
As per the original plan of the government, the eGMP was supposed to come into implementation by 2011 to materialise the dream of e-government into reality. The basics of the master plan was to make the public service delivery effective through internet and other digital mediums. However, even as the master plan was prepared, the government had failed implement it for constraints including lack of required IT infrastructure, human resources and policy and legal aspects.
The MoSTE has set a target to review the master plan within one year and also transforms all governments services into e-services preparing a strategic plan in coordination of all the ministers within five years. “With mobile reaching in everybody’s hand, it has been necessary to focus in m-services now,” said Krishna Chandra Paudel, secretary of the MoSTE. He added that the roadmap was almost in final stage and also requested to own it to all the ministries.
The roadmap contains over 80 different activities to be carried by different ministries and agencies under them. By 2018, the roadmap has set target to make most of all the government services such as application for passport, citizenship and paying utility bills of water and electricity available online integrating all e-services in the national portal of the government.
The draft is basically based on the targets of the IT Policy 2065 and eGMP, according to Birendra Kumar Mishra, director general of the IT Department. The government has envisaged of making IT sector one of the top ten areas contributing in the GDP, promoting IT based industries, making IT services accessible up to rural areas and expand infrastructure nationwide.
Binod Dhakal, president of Computer Association of Nepal said that the roadmap was good initiative from the government part and underlined in the need of proper coordination among the government agencies for proper implementation. He also said that the roadmap should talk about giving tax holiday to local software and BPO companies for least five years to promote them.
The draft roadmap has proposed to adopt immediate (one year), medium (three year) and long term (five year) action plans.”Since IT is changing so rapidly we have provided maximum five years time depending on projects for implementation,” said Mishra. Based on the Wednesday’s discussion and input from other concerned ministries, the MoSTE will make needful change in the draft roadmap and present it to the Cabinet for approval.
Making each related ministry and its department responsible to carry out the project, the roadmap has targeted of implementing programmes to enhance use of ICT in the field of health, education, agriculture and tourism. The government officials representing other ministries suggested to think of alternative power solution when fixing target to make services available online from all government offices across country.
What’s in the draft roadmap?
* Developing a city as Smart City
* Declare SEZ to Sanga of Bhaktapur, Banepa, Papaunti and Dhulikhel for IT industry
* Provision of loan to domestic software companies at low interest rate
* Foreign IT professional to be allowed to work in Nepal
* IT umbrella act within a year
* Make provision of e-payment gateway
* Establishment of Computer Emergency Rescue Team
* Establishment of e-village centres
* Implementation of e-heath and telemedicine
* Promote e-learning, international digital learning and e-library
* Computerised Single Window system for trade facilitation
* Establish Nepal as a renown destination for BPO and software development
* Shared workspace and business incubation centres for IT companies
The draft of “National IT Roadmap” made public on Wednesday stated that the eGMP will be implemented by 2018 with focus on making available government services through mobile phones. To this effect, the MoSTE officials during an interaction on the draft roadmap said that the master plan will be reviewed and implemented accordingly.
As per the original plan of the government, the eGMP was supposed to come into implementation by 2011 to materialise the dream of e-government into reality. The basics of the master plan was to make the public service delivery effective through internet and other digital mediums. However, even as the master plan was prepared, the government had failed implement it for constraints including lack of required IT infrastructure, human resources and policy and legal aspects.
The MoSTE has set a target to review the master plan within one year and also transforms all governments services into e-services preparing a strategic plan in coordination of all the ministers within five years. “With mobile reaching in everybody’s hand, it has been necessary to focus in m-services now,” said Krishna Chandra Paudel, secretary of the MoSTE. He added that the roadmap was almost in final stage and also requested to own it to all the ministries.
The roadmap contains over 80 different activities to be carried by different ministries and agencies under them. By 2018, the roadmap has set target to make most of all the government services such as application for passport, citizenship and paying utility bills of water and electricity available online integrating all e-services in the national portal of the government.
The draft is basically based on the targets of the IT Policy 2065 and eGMP, according to Birendra Kumar Mishra, director general of the IT Department. The government has envisaged of making IT sector one of the top ten areas contributing in the GDP, promoting IT based industries, making IT services accessible up to rural areas and expand infrastructure nationwide.
Binod Dhakal, president of Computer Association of Nepal said that the roadmap was good initiative from the government part and underlined in the need of proper coordination among the government agencies for proper implementation. He also said that the roadmap should talk about giving tax holiday to local software and BPO companies for least five years to promote them.
The draft roadmap has proposed to adopt immediate (one year), medium (three year) and long term (five year) action plans.”Since IT is changing so rapidly we have provided maximum five years time depending on projects for implementation,” said Mishra. Based on the Wednesday’s discussion and input from other concerned ministries, the MoSTE will make needful change in the draft roadmap and present it to the Cabinet for approval.
Making each related ministry and its department responsible to carry out the project, the roadmap has targeted of implementing programmes to enhance use of ICT in the field of health, education, agriculture and tourism. The government officials representing other ministries suggested to think of alternative power solution when fixing target to make services available online from all government offices across country.
What’s in the draft roadmap?
* Developing a city as Smart City
* Declare SEZ to Sanga of Bhaktapur, Banepa, Papaunti and Dhulikhel for IT industry
* Provision of loan to domestic software companies at low interest rate
* Foreign IT professional to be allowed to work in Nepal
* IT umbrella act within a year
* Make provision of e-payment gateway
* Establishment of Computer Emergency Rescue Team
* Establishment of e-village centres
* Implementation of e-heath and telemedicine
* Promote e-learning, international digital learning and e-library
* Computerised Single Window system for trade facilitation
* Establish Nepal as a renown destination for BPO and software development
* Shared workspace and business incubation centres for IT companies
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