ECONSULTATION

eConsultation

eConsultation

With our previous analysis (comparing and contrasting the e-services), I would recommend a new service “eConsultation”. The detail of the service is given below:

eConsultation

eConsultation is the process of enabling the 'consultative' interaction between the State Educational institute and the stakeholders (Studendts, Faculty and others) using the institution's website. The chosen media allows on-line interactive mechanism to debate, discuss, share and provide opinion about the educational policies, students' problems and new initiatives etc. Globally, the eConsultation, as a process has gained significant momentum due to the fact that by adoption of technology, students and faculty can contribute to the process at their convenience. By and large, eConsultation could play a complementary role (to start with) and mature itself into a primary consultation process over time. Again a number of parameters will determine the level of usability of eConsultation.

Benefits of eConsultation A number of benefits can be envisaged by implementing the eConsultation process. The benefits provided below are in addition to the benefits that the consultative process brings in policy making.

Reach: The chosen media provides reach and penetration to target communities that are one way or the other aligned to the media.

Increased participation: The target audience tends to participate more if they have consultation access in a media.

Quick response: To the management and students, eConsultation provides quick and timely response.

Transparency: The media ensures that the whole process is done transparently and in a manner that everyone can have end to end visibility

Ease of analysis: Since the data captured (like opinion polls) could be analyzed using online analytical processing tools like business intelligence

Objective feedback: eConsultation provides an opportunity to record the students feedback more objectively than some of the other research methods where bias of the researchers could impact the consultation process

Scope of eConsultation

It will seek advises and ...