ICT and e-Governance in Rural Area

Under guidance of Mr. Kaushal Bhatt

Neelabha Pant, Prachet Tiku, Nitesh Nayal 4th Year B.Tech , Computer Science and Engg. BIAS, Bhimtal

Introduction
Definition of eGov

It can be defined as the civil and political conduct of government, including service provision, using information and communication technologies.
Transactions
Government Government

Citizens

e-Gov solution

Overview of Presentation Part 1 : Content Manager Part 2 : Audit Trails in Distributed Databases

Intro to Content Manager

The Problem

A Major challenge in eGov : Data Management E.g. Land Records , Citizen Database etc. Content Manager : a Possible Solution

What is Content Manager ? Content Manager (a product from IBM) is a scalable solution for storing and retrieving documents of various types.

Content Manager
Brief Overview of the features of CM
1. Lets you store content regardless of format. ( Unstructured data )
E.g. text documents, scanned images, audio, video, forms any binary object

2. Stores data on distributed servers and provides single point access. 3. Provides many sophisticated features like Access control Storage management Archiving , Purging , Migration User management Automated Workflow Enterprise wide search from Internet or intranet clients. Streaming audio and video.

Some Screenshots of the Application developed

Two databases: Citizen Database Inner Line Permit Database

Security Layer

Main Screen

Workflow in CM

The eGov Middleware

Data Virtualization
Transaction Commands

Application

M I D D L E W A R E

Query processor and optimizer

Isolates logical view of data storage available to the application developer from the physical placement

Data Virtualizer

Database

Database

Database

Database

Issues Involved in the Placement

Security Issues

Risking security at the hands of applications Tamper proofing of Audit Trail

Application Complexity Database design Complexity

Implementation Issues

Audit Trail Transparency to the application developers Consistency of Audit Trail across the entire system Ease of Audit Policy Management

Proposed Solution
Transaction Commands

Application

MI D D L E W A R E

S E C U R I T Y

Audit Trail Agent

Audit Policy Database

Query processor and optimizer Data Virtualizer

Database

Database

Database

Database

Conclusion

Developed rural areas of many undeveloped states (Uttarakhand), where e-governance would be at the door steps of each native. Ease in the operation of all the facilities provided by the government like, reservation, passport, different IDs etc.

Thanks

Architecture of CM
Client

Library Server

Multiple Object Servers

Fig: Architecture of Content Manager for a single Implementation