Jaijit Bhattacharya

Identifying Factors of Integration for an Interoperable Government Portal: A Study in Indian Context

Interoperability is an important pre-condition for achieving higher stages of e-government and further ensures that a one stop portal will become a reality. Interoperability results from vertical and horizontal integration. The question arises: How can the level of interoperability and degree of integration be ascertained? This paper suggests a framework. It begins by identifying critical factors necessary for the successful adoption of interoperability technology along three dimensions of integration-process integration, communication integration, and data integration. Factors are formed from a literature review and discussions with webmasters and IT professionals working on portal development in various government departments of India. These factors are useful in further evaluation across the three dimensions and locate the position of a government portal in a technology adoption space. It is then possible to ascertain a portals current level of integration sophistication.

Policy driven data administration

This paper describes architecture for Policy Driven Data Administration (PDDA), a system for managing data using policies. The architecture supports policy specification, deployment and execution requirements of a system that can autonomically manage data based on pre-specified policies.

Utilizing Network Features for Privacy Violation Detection

Privacy, its violations and techniques to circumvent privacy violation have grabbed the centre-stage of both academia and industry in recent months. Corporations worldwide have become conscious of the implications of privacy violation and its impact on them and to other stakeholders. Moreover, nations across the world are coming out with privacy protecting legislations to prevent data privacy violations. Such legislations however expose organizations to the issues of intentional or unintentional violation of privacy data. A violation by either malicious external hackers or by internal employees can expose the organizations to costly litigations. In this paper, we propose PRIVDAM; a data mining based intelligent architecture of a privacy violation detection and monitoring system whose purpose is to detect possible privacy violations and to prevent them in the future. This paper elaborates on the use of network characteristics for differentiating between normal network traffic and potential malicious attacks. These attacks are usually hidden in common network services like http, ftp, udp etc. Experimental evaluations illustrate that our approach is scalable as well as robust and accurate in detecting privacy violations

Interoperability adoption among government and corporate portals in India: a study

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the position of interoperability of government and corporate portals in technological adoption space in India in terms of three critical dimensions: data integration, process integration and communication integration.Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study was conducted through a survey questionnaire from 300 portals of government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) in India. Data were also collected from portals of Indian companies and the results have been compared with those of the government portals.Findings – The results show that the majority of government portals in India have initiated integration. Second, the portals of Indian companies are performing better than the portals of government and PSUs for achieving an interoperable position. Third, there is high dispersion in level of integration of government portals in India.Practical implications – The portals with the lowest level of integration in government in India wi...

Deploying Cloud Computing to Implement Electronic Health Record in Indian Healthcare Settings

Background: In April 2013, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFA) India released Electronic Health Record (EHR) standard to encourage electronic health information exchange among healthcare stakeholders. In addition, MoHFA expressed a need to find a suitable technology for EHR. Many technology solution providers have advocated cloud computing as a solution for realizing the EHR in India. Therefore, the aim of this study is to obtain insights into the desirability, feasibility, and concern to deploy cloud computing as a technology solution for EHR. Methods: A focus group discussion involving sixteen medical informatics experts was facilitated. The experts exchanged 76 emails using a group email address. The texts generated through emails were analyzed using grounded theory method. NVivo 10 was used for the coding of texts. Results: The textual analysis revealed three broad themes: (1) desirability to have superior attributes in cloud computing technology compared to the existing technologies; (2) concerns towards cloud computing to implement EHR; (3) solutions suggested in the current healthcare and ICT infrastructure of India. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that the use of cloud computing for the EHR is likely to emerge in the future. However, given the current ICT infrastructure and healthcare system of India, several concerns were raised. Therefore, the superiority of cloud computing over other technologies needs to be assured, and stakeholder’s concerns should be satisfactorily answered.

Effect of organizational factors on interoperability adoption for Indian portals

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of organizational factors on the adoption of interoperability technology for Indian portals.Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study was conducted through a survey questionnaire from 300 portals of government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) in India. Data were also collected from portals of Indian companies.Findings – The study finds that adoption of interoperability for Indian portals is highly associated with certain organizational factors. In addition, multiple regression analysis reveals that the functionalities of government portals in India are significantly related to four organizational factors.Practical implications – The research provides insights for government officials and practitioners to understand and improve the level of interoperability in government portals. The study also provides a 2 by 2 matrix framework that helps the government officials to focus on the relevant organizational factors.Orig...

Analyses of issues of information security in Indian context

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to attempt to fill the need to identify critical information security issues at national level, both technical and social in the Indian context, and create a framework of these issues to provide interesting managerial insights about their hierarchy. Current literature advocates relevance of both technical and social issues in a potential framework to address national and organizational information security concerns. Such a framework can guide users in developing insight for strategy in the maize of important information security issues and their intricate interdependency. Design/methodology/approach – Delphi methodology is used to identify a set of topical issues with help from members of a cyber security group. These issues are further analyzed using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to impose order and direction to the complex relationships among them. Findings – The analysis using ISM creates a framework of these issues and provides interesting managerial ins...

Open standards and accessibility to information: a critical analysis of OOXML in India

Present paper attempts to examine the social impact of adoption of Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML), a proposed open standard format for documents, in India. It suspects that adoption will increase the cost to access information. It highlights the need for adopting open standard in the ICT developmental efforts and tackling technological lock-in.

EPAL based privacy enforcement using ECA rules

This paper uses an ECA based policy implementation engine to enforce simple EPAL based enterprise-wide privacy policies. This architecture supports simplified EPAL policies and enforcement requirements of a system that can autonomically manage data-privacy based on pre-specified EPAL policies. The policies are defined through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and this paper discusses the main features of our proposed GUI. The objective of such an approach is to facilitate privacy administrators, with low IT skills, by setting privacy policies for managing the system.

Mobile Governance in Indian Urban Local Bodies: An Exploratory Study

This paper attempts to collate and derive insights from various initiatives on mobile governance by Urban and local bodies in India. The first generation e-governance initiatives by urban local bodies resulted in computerization of the legacy systems/practices in government with limited ability to internalize the advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). The paradigm shift from e-governance tom-governance results in radical differences in the key processes of creating, maintenance and usage of knowledge, creation of secure mobile transaction and delivery system, establishment of the appropriate infrastructural support for multi-mode direct citizen interface and delivery mechanisms. The paper identifies the various mobile app use case scenarios for residents, urban local body managers, system integrators, telcos, data services provider, and other stakeholders. Based on these mobile apps, it is attempted to classify the cities in various categories.