Vision and Mission

IKM Vision-Objectives-Goals

IKM has coined the slogan “ICTs for transparency and efficiency” which reflects its vision.

The specific objectives of IKM include:

a. establishing efficient and responsive systems for good governance in local self governments (LSGs);

b. establishing a mechanism for improving public service delivery through newly created channels for alternative service delivery, with comprehensive citizen interface mechanisms and through appropriately developed community Information Systems on the one hand along with a Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) driven back-end computerisation programme covering various local government functions like monitoring of developmental projects, human resource management, grievance redressal, accounting and budgeting, financial management, and in establishing a holistic social security network (Citizen interfacing and service automation).

c. developing an integrated micro-level resource based developmental information system, which would facilitate meaningful decentralised planning at the local body level (Database development)

d. establishing a network interconnecting the LSGs and the related institutions, providing trained manpower for operationalising hardware and software, and for handholding and providing continued technical support to ensure that the network applications are up and running throughout, through district level helpdesks and a state level helpdesk.

The ICT intervention of IKM aims at addressing the new challenges of local governments in Kerala in the context of substantial devolution of financial resources, redeployment of personnel, transfer of functions and powers to local bodes, and the various administrative reform measures initiated in the context of the coveted decentralisation programme initiated in 1997.