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The strategic objective of e-Governance is to support and simplify governance for Government, People and Businesses. With immergence of technology and growing demand of the society, if appropriately applied, Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) can also leverage the benefit of e-Governance by collaborative resource sharing and service-usage through grid and cloud computing. The underlying goals for adopting e-Governance practices are to ensure improved quality in disseminating education and administration; establish dynamic and need-based communication with various internal, external and peer entities; and conforming to regulations. Grid and cloud can be two candidate frameworks for HEIs governance, which will potentially lower the cost of governance solutions and provide better services. In this paper, the authors propose grid and cloud based e-Governance frameworks for Bangladeshi HEIs. Also a survey is conducted to find perception of various stakeholders about grid and cloud based e-Governance.

A survey to determine the extent to which senior government officials would like to implement e-governance could be interesting. While most government officials will instantly reply affirmatively in favor of implementing e-governance, actual implementation experience contradicts this intention. From practical experience, we may conclude that only a few officers really want the successful implementation of e-governance. A reason for this fear by senior officials particularly in governments that lack transparency is that transparency is at the core of e-governance. In this paper we present OPM (Online Procurement Management) system, the challenges faced during its implementation and the way the project overcame these challenges. This paper could serve as good guideline for implementing ICT projects in general as it does not only address technical issues but also prescribe recommendations from the policy perspective.

With emergence of technology and growing demand of the society, e-Governance became a key issue and developed nations started adopting it to better serve their citizens through efficient and effective services, with accountability and transparency. When appropriately applied, e-Governance can effectively ensure the well being of a university, too. The underlying goals for adopting e-Governance practices are to ensure improved quality in disseminating education and administration, conforming to regulations as per the university statutes and acts. In this paper, the authors attempt to propose a conceptual e-Governance framework for universities and benchmark it.