Devolution of e-Governance among Multilevel Government Structure

Devolution is very important for the sustainability of different initiatives related to e-governance having top-down approach. Centralized verses decentralized e-government is as much debatable issue as the conventional government issue i-e centralized verses decentralized. While devolving political, administrative, and fiscal processes to the grass root level, it is important that the e-governance process model is also appropriately devolved. This paper presents a framework of devolution for e-governance by applying high level enterprise architecture principles and incorporating a decentralized business model. The proposed framework provides guidelines to prepare devolution plan for e-governance