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Reducing Digital Divide in Tamilnadu using Data Mining
Techniques for better E-Governance
R. Jayabrabu M.C.A.,M.Phil.,(Ph.D.,)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Application
Karunya University
Coimbatore – 641 114, Tamilnadu
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. (Dr). V. Saravanan M.C.A.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,
Professor & Director
Department of Computer Applications
Dr. N.G.P Institute of Technology
Coimbatore – 641 048, Tamilnadu
E-mail: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and
information technology and those with very limited access. In other words it is closely related to
the knowledge divide or knowledge share due to the lack of technology and knowledge. The
extraction of useful and non-trivial information from the huge amount of data available in many
and diverse fields of science, business and engineering is called as Data Mining. Data Mining
techniques and algorithms are the actual tools that analysts have at their disposal to find unknown
patterns and correlation in the data. For effective use of E-governance in Tamilnadu, the digital
divide to be reduced. Most of the Government departments are already using E-governance in
Tamilnadu. This is the appropriate time for us to analyze the effectiveness and reachability of
technology to all sectors of peoples. Even the most learned peoples are reluctant in using the
technology. This digital divide gap leads to improper usage of Information and Communication
technologies. The objective of this paper is to analyze the following two important digital divide
issues using data mining and present recommendations for better E-Governance in Tamilnadu.
a. Improving Quality of Bandwidth/Parameters.
Since, the information and communication technologies are being implemented in the
Government at different levels; good bandwidth is needed for constant transformation of
knowledge in a proper format. For the better usage of E- Governance, the quality and
performance of bandwidth performance to be increased. In Tamilnadu, there are so many
service providers available for connectivity. But, the expected quality of bandwidth is less
than the assured bandwidth. This paper analyses the bandwidth parameters using data mining
techniques and suggest a better framework for improving bandwidth across Tamilnadu.
b. Taking Technology to reduce the gap
Now a days, many new information and communication technologies are introduced. The
urban sector is reluctant in using the technology due to the fear of using the technology and
also thinking communication/network failure which occurs frequently. The middle age
peoples still thinks that the technology is very far from them and also is very costlier. The
rural rector is unaware of these technologies and they need to be provided infrastructure and
training. With the increase usage of mobile phones; convergence of technologies also need to
be thought of. This paper analyses the need of urban and rural sector people for the effective
reach of technology. Data Mining Techniques are used for data analysis which leads creation
of to better E-governance standards.
The above mentioned parameters are studied by applying data mining techniques such as
Association rule mining (determine implication rules for a subset of record attributes,
Classification (assign each record of a database to one of a predefined set of classes analysis and
Clustering Techniques (find groups of records that are close according to some user defined
metrics) and a suitable framework is proposed for better E-Governance.