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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Misra, Durgaprasad Babbar, Sunil Mishra, Alka Singh, Sunita |
| Abstract | It is one of the prime intent of Government of India (GoI) to ensuremajority of government services to be delivered electronically to the citizen through the medium of web and mobile. It is therefore, besides making government services online, Digital India Programme of GoI is making concerted efforts towards improving the IT infrastructure and increasing Internet speed and penetration. Most of the websites for Information/Service delivery does not follow the best web practices. It has been observed that majority of Government websites are facing critical problems like missing identity of the website, outdated and irrelevant content and inconsistent presentation and navigation strategy. Above all, websites are also lacking sensitivity towards differently abled section of society who requires careful attention to access the government information and services. These flaws in government web sites are creating hurdle for the citizens to effectively use them. To address and resolve the above mentioned issue, the need of the hour is to build an efficient solution and mechanism. This will ensure effective delivery of information through the websites. In pursuance of the same, a set of guidelines were developed for Indian Government websites with an objective to make the Indian Government websites comply with the essential pre-requisites of UUU Trilogy i.e.; Usable, User-Centric and Universally Accessible and to establish a protocol for any website running under a Government establishment. This paper discuss about the basic issues and challenges in implementing the "Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW)" on few Indian Government websites of its key establishments namely NIC (National Informatics Centre) Portal (http://www.nic.in), MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) Portal (http://http://meity.gov.in) and Open Government Data Platform (https://data.gov.in) as well as a study conducted on National Mobile Governance Initiative (https://mgov.gov.in). This Paper also highlights the common reasons for the non-compliance of the guidelines and suggests mechanisms to expedite the process. |
| Starting Page | 26 |
| Ending Page | 34 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| ISBN | 9781450348256 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3047273.3047323 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2017-03-07 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Goi W3c Web accessibility Guideline Standard Indian government website Gigw Government of india National informatics centre Web usability Certified quality website (cqw) Wcag Website quality manual (wqm) |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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