Comments on: Rohan Responds Rapidly to Nepal http://lirneasia.net/2004/12/rohan-responds-rapidly-to-nepal/ LIRNEasia Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:41:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sanjana http://lirneasia.net/2004/12/rohan-responds-rapidly-to-nepal/comment-page-1/#comment-9740 Sanjana Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:21:49 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/?p=236#comment-9740 Maybe we should just start by giving the King SimCity to help him plan for the ruination of the country?! :-) Maybe we should just start by giving the King SimCity to help him plan for the ruination of the country?! :-)

]]> By: harsha http://lirneasia.net/2004/12/rohan-responds-rapidly-to-nepal/comment-page-1/#comment-9739 harsha Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:01:50 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/?p=236#comment-9739 As we all know democracy is under serious threat in this country. Lots of people feel that elected governments have completely underperformed over the twelve year democratic history. Of course the Moaists are taking advantage of the situation. Nepal is a difficult country to move around; remember it’s in the Himalayan range! Eighty percent of the people live in rural mountainous areas sometimes taking days to get to a government office to attend to their needs. First to get a form, then back again with the filled form [less than 50 percent are literate], then perhaps months for any action. So to them, Government seems so far away; both physically and in terms of what they can get from “these people who we have elected”. It is not surprising that people loose faith in a system that does not seem to be of any use to them. Note that Nepal’s per capita income is only USD 250, and that too with a huge donor component. The Nepal Government should welcome an e-Gov initiative like the one Rohan seem to be suggesting. A well designed e-Gov program could rekindle the faith in Government if it can help people actually avail themselves of government services in a meaningful way. Incorporating an e-Gov project with the ongoing rural telecoms project in the Eastern Development Region may produce results that could surpass expectations. Nepal needs to think out of the box to extricate itself from the difficult situation it is in. 15 December 2004, Katmandu As we all know democracy is under serious threat in this country. Lots of people feel that elected governments have completely underperformed over the twelve year democratic history. Of course the Moaists are taking advantage of the situation.

Nepal is a difficult country to move around; remember it’s in the Himalayan range! Eighty percent of the people live in rural mountainous areas sometimes taking days to get to a government office to attend to their needs. First to get a form, then back again with the filled form [less than 50 percent are literate], then perhaps months for any action. So to them, Government seems so far away; both physically and in terms of what they can get from “these people who we have elected”. It is not surprising that people loose faith in a system that does not seem to be of any use to them. Note that Nepal’s per capita income is only USD 250, and that too with a huge donor component.

The Nepal Government should welcome an e-Gov initiative like the one Rohan seem to be suggesting. A well designed e-Gov program could rekindle the faith in Government if it can help people actually avail themselves of government services in a meaningful way. Incorporating an e-Gov project with the ongoing rural telecoms project in the Eastern Development Region may produce results that could surpass expectations.

Nepal needs to think out of the box to extricate itself from the difficult situation it is in.

15 December 2004, Katmandu

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