6.5.2. Economic Challenges

♤ Cost: In developing countries like India, cost is one of the most important obstacles in the path of implementation of e-governance projects. A huge amount of money is involved in implementation, operational and evolutionary maintenance tasks.

♤ Applications must be transferrable from one platform to another: e-governance applications must be independent from hardware or software platforms.

♤ Maintenance of electronic devices: As the Information Technology changes very fast and it is very difficult for us to update our existing systems very fast. Maintenance is a key factor for long living systems in a rapidly changing technical environment.