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In India, District or zila is the most important administrative unit of the government through which it carries out the implementation of its policies and programmes at the grass roots. All the information and issues of the villages related to law and order, public grievance, public distribution system, social welfare, employment generation, land reforms and so on are available at the offices situated at respective districts whose administrative head is a District Collector. A villager has to traverse several miles and spend several hundreds of rupees to have access to the District Collector for getting the mandatory approvals that are necessary for obtaining the requisite license, certificate or any other service. However by the prudent usage of ICT the villagers can have convenient access to all the public services in their own localities through a ‘Single Window clearance’. In ideal conditions when an e-Government application metamorphoses as an e-Governance application, it can also empower rural masses in remote villages with greater opportunities to participate in the democratic processes. Nevertheless the success of any rural e-government application is not unconditional.

to incorporate concerns for severity of illness as an independent factor in a numerical model of societal valuations of health outcomes; similarly, the need to incorporate reluctance to discriminate against patients that happen to have lesser potentials for health than others; and finally, the need to combine

The interplay between societal concerns and the regulatory

for the doping discussion Doping in sports is a huge societal problem. No longer limited to elite athletes, it is increasingly found in amateur and school sports. It is considered a public health issue by the sport movement and public authorities worldwide, and is characterized primarily by the misuse and abuse

Taking account of societal concerns about risk

interrelates apparent societal trends and changes in the human ecosystem with the various problems of society. Both approaches begin with attempts to list all relevant societal concerns. Several lists of sets of important problems represent the judgements of a wide variety of informed observers on specific

, e.g., by consuming substantial resources at odds with Green Computing, another major area of societal concern. We propose a new crosscutting research area, Societal Com-puting, that focuses on the technical tradeoffs among com-putational models and application domains that raise signif

Contradictory intent? US federal legislation on integrating societal concerns into nanotechnology research and development

s, whether a woman finds individuality in her job, occupation, profession, or career. The third concerns "decision making." Here the distinction is whether labor force decisions are made fully jointly, if a woman is married or in a long term relationship, or, on the other hand, whether