Background

One of the flagship initiatives of The Society for Promotion of e-Governance, e-Gov World is one of the most reputed platforms for the government practitioners, industry, academia and civil society organizations to share their learning practices and develop the foresight for transforming government services. The participants from all over the world, especially South Asia, Europe, Middle East have been taking part in the deliberations during e-Gov World to accelerate citizen centric public services initiatives since past six years.

The first conference under the series was held in 2004 in partnership with the Chandigarh Administration at the CII centre in Chandigarh and was inaugurated by the Governor of Punjab & Haryana. Since 2006, the scope of the deliberations was expanded to include issues like cooperation framework among South Asian countries, mobile governance, Open Solutions for Public Administration and new media technologies under the guidance of Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, currently Secretary IT, Government of India; who was the Chairman of the program advisory board during e-Gov World 2006 , e-Gov World 2007 and e-Gov World 2008 . During this period, the platform emerged as one of the strongest think tank and the advocacy platform for government transformation initiatives in the South Asian region.

Government and multilateral organizations like  DIT, Government of India, The World Bank, UNDP, NIC, One World South Asia, UNESCO, UN Solution Exchange, CDAC, USAID, Danish Technological Institute and the Industry players such as Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Airtel, Oracle, Cisco and many others have been the regular partners and sponsors of the e-GovWorld conferences. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture have been the knowledge partners for e-Gov World & Government Transformation Forum initiatives respectively over past six years.

The deliberations under the e-Gov World and Government Transformation Forums are designed in consultation with the government agencies, industry representatives and other stakeholders and are clearly focussed on the outcomes to take the e-Government services to the next level. The Program Advisory boards for each of the conference  consists of the top experts in the domain. The deliberations of each of the conference are documented in the form of a conference report and are circulated among the key policy makers as the stakeholder inputs.