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The present chapter is a summary of the book which is a comparative study of selected countries in the Asia Pacific. In South Asia it selects India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan; in Southeast Asia three countries Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines; in East Asia, South Korea and China; and lastly from the Pacific, only one country Australia has been selected for analysis. These countries have been selected on the basis of interaction with researchers and academia working on e-governance issues and the experience through NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance is the only non-West governance research network presently located at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, New Delhi. It was originally launched by ADB at INTAN, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) travels and communication with country administrators and departments of e-governance. The study has navigated through the efforts of technological determinists in governance to democrats who prefer a decentralised structure of e-governance. In conclusion, the book suggests that e-governance is the nature of governance in times to come and countries which are making holistic efforts and possess a knowledgeable and firm leader to direct the course of events and investments would achieve sustainable development and economic progress.
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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor who is the founder of WikiLeaks, a newspaper which exposes classified information obtained from various sources. WikiLeaks has been a whistleblower of many secret programmes of big governments. Assange has been in asylum since 2010 for leaking secret information to press (Gray 2010).
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Edward Joseph Snowden a thirty-year-old American technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who leaked some intricate policy secrets of US government to expose its mass surveillance programmes. As he leaked secrets to The Guardian (London) and a documentary film-maker involved in such themes, he declared that his ‘effort was to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them’. (Gellman et al. 2013; Greenwald et al. 2013; Greenwald and Ball 2013).
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Dyadic structures define relationships between two actors, whereas networks involve many actors with multiple forms of relationships. Lazer and Binz-Scharf (2007) have titled their chapter as ‘It takes a Network to Build a Network’.
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Herbert Marcuse has written passionately on technological rationality leading to some or the other form of enslavement of human beings in society: ‘In a world where haves and have-nots exist side-by-side, and where the “free” enjoy their freedom off the backs of those that remain captured, freedom is merely an illusion’ (Vieta 2006, p. 10).
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Paul Chambers and Director of Public Prosecutions (2012).
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Mens rea (or guilty mind) is a Latin term which is used to explain the motive behind the crime, suggesting criminal liability as ‘the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty’. Besides, there must be an ‘actus reus’ (or guilty act) accompanied by mens rea to constitute the crime. Technically, there is no criminal liability attached to a person who acted without mental rea.
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Kelly et al. (2012).
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Bhardwaj (2013).
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Singh, A. (2013). Epilogue. In: A Critical Impulse to e-Governance in the Asia Pacific. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1632-2_7
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