Sustainable urban social and economic development through application of information technology and municipal organizational governance and management

Abstract

The Information Technology advancement in the West and rest of the World brought about change and development in all spheres of life of human population. Spatial Mobility of people are seldom not a constraint for development since the flow of communication and the internet connectivity though computers at homes and office and mobile phones at hands made life easier for the people living in far off places. Globalization brought out economic development and administrative and organization change in India. Knowledge and innovation play an increasing role in meeting development and achieving economic growth and competitiveness in a globalized world. There is also recognition that innovation offers solutions to key public policy changes in delivery of municipal services. So the innovation is high on the agenda of several international process and deliberations and also for the urban local governments in India. A growing number of urban agencies are moving towards adopting new technology and consider in administrative and organizational change. UN Habitat acknowledges that there is still lack of adequate access to training and in interaction between urban local government agencies in India; A knowledge network among the urban local government agencies are essential for the better delivery of services and bring in the social and economic development of urban areas. The world Bank collaborates with the International Finance Corporation on an initiative to promote access to ICTs towards successful returns and development impact It is the result that every state in India establish Urban Infrastructure Investment Development Agencies look forward to improve the municipal infrastructure improvement and organizational development. These in turn facilitates the local government to initiate planned development with the municipal area with the stack holder involvement This paper attempted to investigate the role of 1CT in the sustainable urban social and economic development of some selected municipalities in Tamil Nadu. Especially the paper will focus on the extent of application of ICT and the organizational change. Within the context of urban municipal government in Tamil Nadu. India.