The National Portal is a whole-of-government initiative consisting of over 25,000 websites designed to reach the entire citizenry, especially the information have-nots. This portal has grown to generate an average of 1 million hits per day. The single architecture, look and feel and the use of vernacular make information provision by government officials extraordinarily simple and seamless, lowering the technology bar. A crowdsourcing approach was employed to equip 70,000 government officials to populate and update the content. The massive portal deployment was supplemented by establishing over 5000 ICT access centers across the country and formulating/ reforming necessary policies.

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