Abstract:
Most South Asian countries tend to treat Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) as a onetime adoption. Their institutions which
govern the advancement of technology are relatively slower as compared
to their neighborhood East Asian and Pacific countries. South Asian
countries have spent a hefty sum on e-governance projects and invested
heavily in ICT infrastructures. They have been fast to adopt ICTs and
create cyber cities to expand business and marketing hubs so much so that
ICT applications have brought a ‗data tsunami‘. It is here that these
countries suffer a phenomenal lack of trained personnel for reordering
data and finding in it a key to growth. If governments do not
simultaneously generate capacity to reorder, select and classify this
uncontrollable flow of data, the most likely consequence would be
derailment of GDP promotion efforts. South Asian countries need skilled
personnel to analyze this almost arbitrary and wild communicational
parameters of social media, marketing and commercial sites. Data needs
to be analyzed, grafted and cleaned before it is stored in ICT storage
spaces within each country. In terms of traditional public administration
this is equivalent to storing file-information systematically in accordance
to its subject, relevance and priority, subsequently discarding the waste
unmindfully stuffed in office cupboards and storehouses. South Asian
ICT infrastructure is likely to become an office which has unclassified
and unmarked files littered all over its spaces to an extent that it becomes
too overwhelming and gargantuan for managers to seek any information
out of it. Most institutions such as legislatures, Judiciary and Election
Commission to name a few encounter extreme challenges in their
achievement graph.
