The main objectives of the CEG are to

Identify ICT applications that can provide improved services to citizens and help the public administration in improving planning, monitoring and administrative processes.

Demonstrate the feasibility of implementing such applications by specifying broad architecture, detailed design and creating prototype application software (wherever feasible).

Disseminate the work of the Centre to public administrators and other agencies that promote and use e-Governance.

Within the broad framework of these objectives, the Centre takes up the following types of activities:

Developing conceptual papers on strategies that state governments can follow to introduce e-Governance.

Working with specific departments/programmes to identify opportunities for developing ICT applications.

Designing such ICT applications, identifying hardware and software resources that would be required to implement such applications.

Developing the software as Prototypes (wherever feasible) to demonstrate the feasibility of building such applications.

Conducting cost-benefit analysis of electronic governance projects and preparing comprehensive evaluation reports.

Documenting case studies of successful e-Governance applications already developed in the field.

Designing workshops for sensitizing senior echelons of public administrators.

Developing papers, reports and films to disseminate the output of the Centre.