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Blog Title Total Blog's How ICT can help initiate e-Governance in a developing country like ours?             9 Rural farmers and ICT contribution for their economic development.             1 How ICT enabled services can help SMEs besides market information?             0 Software Technology Park (STP) – is it time to drop the concept or is there any other roads to further explore in order to make it a reality?             0 Public and Private Funding for R & D – the necessity and how this can play a role in overall development of the sector? Should findings of publicly funded R&D be open to all?             1 Technology Neutral regulatory regime – benefits and pitfalls? Will it help promote monopolistic or oligopolistic economy? How this can play a role in nurturing the SMEs and startups?             0 Vat & Tax on local and imported software – can it be made more transparent? Should there be any VAT at all on local software? Prohibitive tax on import of software that is locally available and developed.             0 Public and Private Software & ITES procurement policy – how do we make it more friendly to play a role in developing the sector? What are the weaknesses of the industry that needs to be addressed on priority basis?             0 Automation of Government bodies, authorities and integration – the necessity. Will it bring more transparency, reduce corruption? How?             0 NBR Automation – why, how and possible benefits to both the authorities and tax payers             0 e-Payments / Payments gateway – way ahead to overcome possible/existing hurdles (certification, payment gateway etc.)             4 e-Tendering – the necessarily and possible benefits and pitfalls (if any)             0 PPP relevant to software & IT industry – roles and doable from Government, Industry Stakeholders and Private parties from the industry             0