Middleware and Technology Standards for E-Governance

Jaijit Bhattacharya, India Research Lab, IBM, IIT, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 India

11/24/2008
(Original Publish Date: 1/2/2003)

Governments are moving towards ushering in an age of electronic governance or e-governance. However, they are facing the problem of investing in solutions that do not integrate with the rest of the systems or are not scalable and robust. This paper attempts to introduce the concept of middleware and technology standards as a tool to develop integrable, scalable and robust e-governance solutions, while employing multiple solution providers.