Much has been said about the proliferation of eGovernance projects in developing countries and their impact on local communities. In this book, Shirin Madon draws on 18 years of research in India in which time many changes have occurred in terms of development ideology and in governance reform for achieving development goals.

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of eGovernance for Development projects. Drawing on evidence from three longitudinal case studies of rural eGovernance projects this book shows that improving systems of governance is fundamentally a social rather than managerial or technological activity.