1. eGovernment Policy
A Brief Reminder!
Wasantha Deshapriya
Director
Re-Engineering Government Programme
Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka
www.icta.lk
wasantha@icta.lk
at http://twitter.com/Wasanthadesha

2. Background
● Cabinet of Ministers approved the
policy to be implemented in
– Ministries
– Provincial Councils
– Departments
– District and Divisional Secretaries
– Local Government authorities
– Government Corporations, Statutory
Bodies, and Companies fully owned
by government

3. Timeframe
● The policy was approved by the
Cabinet of Ministers in 2009
● It was expected to be implemented
by all government organizations in
3 years, ending in Dec 2012

4. What is in eGov Policy
● There are 177 policy requirements
● Government organizations were
requested comply with at least
most important 40 requirements
● All organizations were requested to
submit the their compliance levels
at end of 2012 and were assessed
accordingly
● Lets see few policy requirements

5. ICT Unit
Every Govt
organization
should have an
eGov Unit

6. Chief Information Officer
Every
organization
should appoint a
CIO to lead
eGov work of
the organization

7. Annual eGov Plan
Every
organization
should have an
annual eGov plan

8. Sinhala in computers
Sinhala Unicode
should be used for
all computing work
in Sinhala

9. Involve ICTA
ICTA should be
consulted
before
implementing
eGov projects of
which cost is over
Rs 2 mn

10. Use GIC-1919
All govt
organizations
should provide
service related
information
through
GIC-1919 287 government organizations have provided
information covering over 2500 services

11. Use of eMail
Use email for
official
communication
and use only
official email
accounts for such wasanthadesha@gmail.com X
communication. wasantha@icta.lk √

12. Lanka Govt Network (LGN)
● Every govt
organization
should be
connected to
LGN and use its
resources for
eGov needs

13. ICT literacy
● All govt officers,
including the top
management
should have the
skills and
competency in
using computers.

14. Govenment websites
All govt
websites
should be
trilingual and
updated
frequently

15. Web Standards
Use web standards
published by ICTA
and get your
website audited by
SLCERT for
information
security holes

16. Lanka Government Network
Telephone: 2497900
Services provided
1) Connectivity Internet 8:00 AM TO 5:00 PM
2) Secure eMail
3) web hosting 5M 5M
4) Digital certificate Email
LGN
Hub VoIP
45M 45M
256K
IP Pho 1M
ne
l LGN
ai
E-m MPLS VPN 1M
NOC
512K
512K
IP Phone: 2497900

17. Lanka Government Cloud (LGC)
LGC can provide
“Software-as-a
Service”; e.g. email,
eHRM,
LGC can provide
“Platform-as-a
Service”: e.g.
databases, web
platform
LGC can provide
“Infrastructure-as-a-
Service”; e.g. Services

18. Information Security
Adopt and
implement
Information
Security policy
published by
ICTA.

19. Results of assessment by end
2012
● Only 229 organizations (out of 1479)
responded Only 33 organizations
became compliant with eGov policy

20. Who are compliant?
● Only 5 ministries (10%) have
adopted and are complaint with
the eGov policy!
●

21. Scope
● Cabinet of Ministers approved the
policy to be implemented in
– Ministries
– Provincial Councils
– Departments
– District and Divisional Secretaries
– Local Government authorities
– government Corporations, Statutory
Bodies, and Companies fully owned
by government

22. What could be done??
● The failure can be
due to lack of
awareness,
understanding and
experience
● You could invite
ICTA for a policy
discussion where
you could draw up
an ICT plan for the
current year
●