Before September 11, security meant smart cards, passwords, PIN codes, firewalls, Public Key Infrastructure Initiatives (PKI) and Symmetric Key Infrastructure (SKI). But after this tragedy, the focus has shifted to managing e-governance with a lot more emphasis on authentication and verification. Read this book for ideas on implementing e-governance and for designing systems of e-auctions and e-procurement. It is of particular use to students, business and institutional managers, information owners, service providers, system and applications designers, project executors, professionals, bureaucrats, administrators, and all those involved in implementing e-governance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajiv Prakash Saxena
Rajiv Prakash Saxena is a Senior Technical Director at National Informatics Centre, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India. An alumnus of University of British Columbia, he is working at NIC for the last 22 years. As a visiting faculty at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, he teaches Business on Telecommunication vis-a-vis eCommerce and mCommerce. This course was designed for the first time in India in the year 1997-98, when eCommerce had just started. He also participates in Management Development Courses at various institutes like NIFM - Faridabad, ALTTC - Ghaziabad, NJRI - Lucknow, ATI-Nainital and IIPA - New Delhi among many others. He is advisor to Small Industry Development Bank of India (SIDBI) on IT issues. He has been a UN Consultant to UNCTAD in the area of eCommerce and Trade Facilitation. He has worked at Bogotá, Colombia under a programme of DIT to frame the IT Policies of Colombia under UNDP Project. He has also worked for UNESCAP to work on eReadiness of Pacific Rim Countries and to implement the Complaint Management System for Nepal National Human Rights Commission, which was funded by CIDA. He has umpteen papers, commentaries, TV shows on proliferation of IT, Digital Certificate and trade facilitation and has been a Guest Speaker and panelist on many issues like IT Act 2000, Future of eCommerce and On-line Education among others in many Indian seminars and UN conferences by different agencies, including World Bank. He also has 2 books to his credit. At present he is heading the Group for Tihar Jail Computerisation, Computerisation at NHRC, New Delhi, in Nepal and Jordan, Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation, eProcurement, NIC IT Promotional Units and Indian Parliament - Rajya Sabha & Lok Sabha. He has guided, reviewed and examined over 300 thesis of MCA, B.E., BTech, MBA & ME degrees of various institution all over the country. He was also a team member to set up Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for G-2-G applications.
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