E-Governance Paradigm Using Cloud Infrastructure: Benefits and Challenges

AbstractMost of the companies including government organizations are running their applications in the cloud due to the rapid advancement in ICT. In recent years cloud computing is one of the most significantly achieved development in the IT industry which gives a platform to use the application in the form of services which is more scalable, reliable, high performance and relatively low cost as compared to other distributed computing infrastructure. E-Governance is one of the applications of ITC to enable and exchange the information between the G2G, G2C, G2B, G2E modality of society. So it can be seen simply as moving citizen services online, but in its broadest sense it refers to the technology-enabled transformation of government. It reduce costs, whilst promoting economic development, increasing transparency in government, improving service delivery and public administration, and facilitating the advancement of an information society. So for e-gov cloud implementation, resources for e-governance modality can be mapped to the services and deployment models. Though the e-Gov cloud deployment is a greatest challenge of ICT, but the main challenge is the security and protection to both government and the citizens. The main objective of this paper is to provide a clear idea about the e-Gov using cloud computing models and outlines the problems and requirements for understanding the e-Gov paradigm in India