E-Infrastructure

by Prasenjit Baishya, Chandra Kumar

Sahu, Ravi Chandra, Sibu Sahadevan.

E-Infrastructure comprises tools, facilities and resources that are needed for
advanced collaboration and includes integration of various technologies such as
Internet broadband channels, computing power, bandwidth provisioning, data
storage, grid based resource sharing etc.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) together with Internet is making it
possible to share vast amount of knowledge and information and is driving all round
socio-economic changes and growth. E-Infrastructure will be the key enabler for the
information and knowledge society

Some

of

the

Initiatives

of

DIT

(Department

of

Information

Technology)

Establishment of Bio IT Park

Information Technology Investment Regions (ITIR)
Trans Eurasia Information Network - Phase 3 (TEIN3) under EU Co- operation.
ICT Vocational Centers for Skill Creation for the Children with Disabilities in the

area of Information Technology

Setting up of ICT based distant training facility for Special Education
Creating Knowledge Data Centre (KDC) at Anna University, Chennai

Configurable

Politics

and

Asymmetric

Integration:

Health

e-

Infrastructures in India:
Health Information Systems Program (HISP) Building networks involving
developing and developed countries with the goals of improving health services,
building capacity and developing and supporting open source software tools is an
important focus of the HISP network.
District Health Information System (DHIS) is a software application developed
by this network to support the collection, usage, reporting, and analysis of routinely
collected activity data seen in conjunction with other relatively semi-permanent
data concerning population, infrastructure, and locations of people and facilities.

FHIMS (Family Health Information Monitoring System) Comprehensive health

information system, based on registry of household names.
Following steps were taken by government of India:

Integration with FHIMS in Andhra Pradesh

Integration of DHIS with FHIMS
Political events undermining further growth
Integration of DHIS with Pragati in Gujarat
Challenges of maintaining the integrated systems
Ousted by a competitor, the re-entering

The Development of Data Infrastructures for eHealth: A SocioTechnical Perspective: HealthGrid projects show clearly that there is a tension
between the

technical ideal of a stable, interoperable infrastructure for data

sharing and reuse, and the reality of knowledge as evolving, socially and locally
constructed, and often disputed. key issues faced by the HealthGrid projects relate
to the reconfiguring of disparate local, regional, and national governance structures
for the use of data. Standardising Domain Models was required because Problems
in Agreeing on Semantics were crucial which were needed to be addressed.