E-governance framework for higher education institutes using grid: Digital Bangladesh perspective

e-Governance provides government services through interactive website and portals. The strategic objective of e-Governance is to support and simplify governance for all the stakeholders: a) Government, b) People, and c) Businesses. It is a collection of ICT enabled applications to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in various forms of e-Governance such as G2G, G2E, G2C and G2B. With immergence of technology and growing demand of the society, if appropriately applied, Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) can also leverage the benefit of e-Governance by collaborative resource sharing through grid computing. The underlying goals for adopting e-Governance practices are to ensure improved quality in disseminating education and administration; establish dynamic and need-based communication with various internal, external and peer entities across the country/globe; and conforming to regulations. Grid computing can be an ideal framework for HEIs to effectively and efficiently handle need-based computational and on-demand query processing for enabling e-Governance, contributing in achieving digital Bangladesh in faster time frame. Implementing an e-Governance solution using grid can potentially lower the cost of developing, deploying, and managing governance solutions and providing better services to the stakeholders as well as the citizens (students, guardians). In this paper, the authors propose a framework of e-Governance-grid suitable for Bangladeshi HEIs; ensuring quality education to broader audience in building digital Bangladesh.