Government of Goa has embarked on many E-Governance initiatives by announcing its IT policy during 2005. Accordingly, an E-governance Roadmap has been prepared E-Governance Roadmap In this process of preparing e-governance road map, the Department of Information Technology, has considered to focus more on Citizen Centric (G2C) Services and Business Centric (B2C) Services. Through this initiative, more than 600 services have been offered to be offered to citizens and businesses. All the services are prioritized based on the volume of transactions. During the process of preparing the e-governance road map, we have also considered and prepared the capacity building road map for the State of Goa, as per the guidelines of the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India. Goa Broadband Network As a step towards this we have intiated a project to connect each and every house through primarily on Optic Fiber Cable and through wireless wherever it is not possible to connect through OFC. Through this initiative, we are planning to connect the State Head Quarters to the District Headquarters & Taluka Headquarters with 10Gbps connectivity and connect Taluka Headquarters with each and every Village Panchayat with 1Gbps connectivity. All the households will be connected with 2- 100 Mbps connectivity depending on the need and demand. State Data Centre Also, the need of having a State Date Centre along with suitable Disaster Recovery (DR) Site has been felt. We are in the process of preparing the RFP for selection of the partner to establish the State Data Centre. The plan is to utilize NIC Data Centre at Hyderabad as a DR Site. Approval of in-principle from National Informatics Centre, Delhi has been received. Single Official Portal It is very essential to have a Single Official Portal for the entire State of Goa, to act as a single Contact for the services offered by the State of Goa. Through this portal, it has planned to offer, all informative, interactive, transactional and collaborative services to the citizen and business. Citizen Service Centers It is also very essential to have the service delivery points covering the entire State of Goa. Accordingly it has planned to extend existing Mahiti Ghar (Information centers) Scheme to reach each and every Village Panchayat. Computerisation of Departments For proper utilization of the above infrastructure and offering the services to the citizen and business as indicated above, it is very essential to complete the back end computerization with all the services and processes in all the Departments. To achieve this the process of computerization in all the Government Departments with 32 Departments in its first phase. The project is in an advanced stage of implementation in most of the Departments and is likely to be completed by the time the above infrastructure Projects are in place successfully implemented by various other State Governments like e-Procurement, Issue of Ration Cards using IRIS Software, Issue of Smart Cards to all citizens, Electronic File Movement system, Integrated Government Fiscal Management system, etc are also being considered. Plans to implement e-Procurement system with the help of DGS&D, Government of India, and, issue of ration cards with the help of Institute for Electronic Governance, Government of Andhra Pradesh are also in the works. Role of NIC, GOA State centre NIC, GOA State Center has played a vital role in making GOA state as the aspiring leaders in IT. The present network (GOANET) has been designed and maintained by NIC. In addition NIC has implemented important projects like: Municipal councils Directorate of Accounts & Treasuries Land Records Infogram (For Village Panchayats) RTI Common pay roll for GOA state In all certainity it can be said that Goa will soon emerge as an ICT leader and set an e- xample amongst Indian states. For further information mail to advisorit.goa@nic.in