AU-KBC
RESEARCH CENTRE
Implementation of an electronic governance model for Indian Universities.
Objective of the project :
The main objective of this project is to develop a software package in
a standard Data base environment running on a campus network that will provide
a smooth flow of information, commands, requests and reporting between
the "Government" (University administration) and the "Citizens"
(Students,
Staff and Public) so as to enhance the speed and quality of internal functioning
as well as to provide a "user-friendly" access to outsiders. This
will be a layer above the concept of "Office Automation", and would demonstrate
how Information Technology tools can lead to definite improvements in productivity,
efficiency and 'Customer satisfaction' in the environment of a typical
Indian university. A measurable result of this would be a substantial reduction
in the use and movement of paper, as well as reduced need for the movement
of people searching for information , leading to reduced delays, cost savings
as well as environmental conservation. The first task to be worked out
is to try out this project in Anna University as it has all the internal
and external features of a typical Indian university. Hence it would constitute
a marketable product usable by few hundreds of similar institutes in our
country.
Scope of the work :
We are collecting information on the following areas/modules:
- Academic Information -- data from every Department/
Schools on regard with the student as from the start of the admission
to end of his/her course.
- Administrative Information -- Information regarding the administrative
systems, rules and regulations, actions taken, etc.
- Personal Information -- every information regarding the staff(both
teaching and non teaching)
- Student data and Admission process -- all data regarding the students
- Research and training -- maintaining and tracking information regarding
- Research, Consultancy, Testing, Continuing education, Training,
Conferences and Courses conducted.
- Purchase and inventory -- processing of purchase and inventory
- Finance and accounts -- deals with transactions, budgeting and analysis
- MIS reports -- reports on all the above said modules
- Security -- plays a key role in every module providing control to
specified groups to allowable access of information
S.
N. R. Senthil Kumar