Semantically Driven Architecture for Governance

A number of efforts in the area of e-Governance are being undertaken by the Indian Government to strengthen governance in the country. One area of governance to which not much attention has been paid is the area of modeling the government domain and providing tools and technologies for policy makers to directly update the government knowledge. The paper explores the approach of semantic technologies to address this aspect of governance based on the research efforts already taken up by different countries in this area. It briefly describes a research project that is under way to adopt this approach for the Indian government