Egov-India: Quotable Quote

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotable Quote

"I can tell you, having spent some time within the federal agencies, I've been amazed that some of the smartest people I've ever met in my life are federal government employees."
--Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO at FOSE

(Source: Jackson, Joab (2009): Kundra courts the risk of innovation, GCN, April 2, http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/04/06/Kundra-innovation.aspx?Page=5)

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Dr D.C.Misra's Contributions

 6. Misra, D.C. (2006f): India’s National Knowledge Commission: Lessons for Mauritius, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Resource Paper-1 for the Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Prepared under the aegis of Commonwealth Secretariat, London, January, v+44 pp, http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/telcomit
 5. Misra, D.C. (2006e): Driving the Implementation of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Concept in Mauritius: Volume I: A Framework, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Resource Paper-2 for the Chief Information Officers (CIOs). Prepared under the aegis of Commonwealth Secretariat, London, June, xv+97 pp, http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/telcomit
 4. Misra, D.C. (2006d): Driving the Implementation of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Concept in Mauritius: Volume II: An Action Plan, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Resource Paper-3 for the Chief Information Officers (CIOs). Prepared under the aegis of Commonwealth Secretariat, London, June, xvi+27 pp, http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/telcomit
 3. Misra, D.C. (2006b): Driving the Implementation of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Concept in Mauritius: Model Foundational Course in E-government for Chief Information Officer, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Resource Paper-5 for the Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Prepared under the aegis of Commonwealth Secretariat, London, July, v+36 pp, http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/telcomit
 2. Misra, D.C. (2006b): Driving the Implementation of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Concept in Mauritius: Model Foundational Course in E-government for Chief Information Officer, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Resource Paper-5 for the Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Prepared under the aegis of Commonwealth Secretariat, London, July, v+36 pp, http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/telcomit
1. Misra, D.C. (2006a): Ten Emerging E-government Challenges Today: The Future May be Sober and Not Hype, Keynote Address in 4th International Conference on E-governance, December 15, 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in Sahu, G.P. (ed.) (2006): Delivering E-government, New Delhi, Gift Publishing, Global Institute of Flexile Systems Management, Chapter 2, pp 6-14, Presentation made on December 15, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNPAN/UNPAN025339.pdf, http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment/rc/filedownload.do~itemId=1084780
2006
19. Misra, D.C. (2007s): Ten Guiding Principles for Knowledge Management in E-government, in Proceedings of First International Conference on Knowledge Management for Productivity and Competitiveness, 11-12, January, 2007, New Delhi, National Productivity Council (forthcoming). Presentation made in the Conference on January 12, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNPAN/UNPAN025338.pdf, http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment/rc/filedownload.do?itemId=1089317
18. Misra, D.C. (2007r): eMLA: A Training Programme in E-governance for State Legislators, for INCITE (Indian Networks Cooperation in Information Society Technology with Europe) Project, New Delhi (Presentation made in 1-2-1 session on January 23), http://www.inciteproject.org/
17. Misra, D.C. (2007q): Defining E-government: A citizen-centric criteria-based approach, e-Governance Compendium 2007, New Delhi, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), 10th National Conference on e-Governance, February 2-3, 2006, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Theme: Avant-garde issues in e-governance, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNPAN/UNPAN025373.pdf,
16. Misra, D.C. (2007p): Is E-government a dangerous enthusiasm? Review of Gauld, Robin and Shaun Goldfinch with Tony Dale (2006): Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-government, Computer Failure and Information System Development, Dunedin, New Zealand, Otago University Press, http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=748, http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment/rc/filedownload.do~itemId=1085752
15. Misra, D.C. (2007o): Public CIO: An International Experience, Dataquest eGov Summit, New Delhi, March 1 (Invited presentation)
14. Misra, D.C. (2007n): Sixty Years (1947-2007) of E-governance in India, Presentation in RIS Programme on International Economic Issues and Development Policy, March 8 at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, http://www.ris.org.in/
13. Misra, D.C. (2007m): E-governance: Fresh Bytes, Dataquest, April 30, pp 80-81 (Column), http://www.dqindia.com/content/egovernance/default.asp (subscription required)
12. Misra, D.C. (2007l): Preparing E-business Plan for E-government: Transforming Government, Guest Lecture at Post Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Management Programmme (2007-09), School of Public Policy and Governance, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India, August 7, http://www.mdi.ac.in/home/governance.asp
11. Misra, D.C. (2007k): Emerging E-government Challenges Today: Future may be Sober and not Hype, Guest Lecture at Post Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Management Programmme (2007-09), School of Public Policy and Governance, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India, August 9, http://www.mdi.ac.in/home/governance.asp
10. Misra, D.C. (2007j): Emerging E-government Challenges Today: Future may be Sober and not Hype, Guest Lecture at the Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA), Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, August 22, http://www.iipa.ernet.in/main-current-appa-program.asp
9. Misra, D.C. (2007i): Sixty Years (1947-2007) of E-governance in India: Are there Lessons for Developing Countries, Guest Lecture in International Programme on Human Resource Planning and Development , September 6, at Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Narela, Delhi, http://www.iamrindia.org/
8. Misra, D.C. (2007h): E-governance: The Korean Way, eGov, September, Review of Jeong (2006): The Road to Innovation: E-government: Principles and Experiences in Korea, Seoul, Gil-Job E-Media, September 29, http://www.bloggernews.net/110586 dated September 29th, 2007
7. Misra, D.C. (2007g): E-business for E-governance, Dataquest, September 27, Thursday, (Column), http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/egovernance/2007/107092704.asp
6. Misra, D.C. (2007f): Public Sector Managers as “Responsive Entrepreneurs:” Will they deliver in developing countries? Review of Chen, Dr Peter (2007): Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers, Canberra, ACT, Australia, ANU E Press, the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, the Australian National University, contributed to Information Technology in Developing Countries Newsletter, Ahmedabad, India, http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/wg.htm
5. Misra, D.C. (2007e): E-democracy, E-government and E-citizen: E-engagement holds the Key to Good E-government, Paper contributed to e-GoveWorld 2007, November 29-30, 2007, New Delhi, India, http://www.egovworld.org/egovworld-details/about-egovworld (under submission)
4. Misra, D.C. (2007d): E-governance: The Canadian Way, eGov, October, Review of Roy, Jeffrey (2006): E-government in Canada: Transformation for the Digital Age, Ottawa, Ontario, University of Ottawa Press, http://www.bloggernews.net
3. Misra, D.C. (2007c): Sixty Years of Development of E-governance in India (1947-2007): Are there Lessons for Developing Countries? Paper contributed to 1st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2007), December 10-13, 2007, Macao, SAR China, www.icegov.org (forthcoming)
2. Misra, D.C. (2007b): The Chief Information Officer (CIO) Concept in E-government: Select Lessons for Developing Countries, Paper contributed to IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, December 15-16, 2007, Bangalore, India, http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007 (forthcoming)
1.Misra, D.C. (2007a): Select Aspects of Conceptual Foundations of E-government: Clearing the Fog for a Better Vision, Paper contributed to 5th International Conference on E-governance (ICEG 2007), December 28-30, 2007, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (http://www.iceg.net/2007/) (forthcoming)
2007
1. Misra, D.C. (2008): State-Citizen Interface in E-governance: Bridging the Great State-Citizen Divide, National Conference on E-Governance, http://darpg.nic.in/ (forthcoming)
2008