{"id":16980,"date":"2018-01-23T00:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=16980"},"modified":"2018-01-23T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:53:32","slug":"digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nIn its race to be digital, government is promoting e-governance in a big way. However, various schemes are launched but hardly any checks and balances are there nor public feedback is taken.<br \/>\nNotwithstanding, the innumerable advantages that e-governance brings, but do we ever ponder over the cost to the exchequer or whether these initiatives have actually helped people.<br \/>\nWe talk about corruption when buildings collapse, roads damage because these can be observed by the least literate of common people but what about intangible services like IT.<br \/>\nCan the common people know whether the money pumped in IT services are actually worth every penny and about the losses incurred when IT schemes fail?<br \/>\nWhen there is a huge digital divide, how can such service help?<br \/>\nSchools in capital complex itself don\u2019t have basic amenities like furniture, toilet, water supply and we talk of digitalisation.<br \/>\nPublic awareness and activism is necessary for clean and transparent governance which is a hallmark of e-governance.<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>N Lima,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Polo colony<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, In its race to be digital, government is promoting e-governance in a big way. However, various schemes are launched but hardly any checks and balances are there nor public feedback is taken. Notwithstanding, the innumerable advantages that e-governance brings, but do we ever ponder over the cost to the exchequer or whether these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}