Figure illustrates slim chances for true e-Governance initiatives to take off smoothly, without hinderance. The combined power of influential minority to force Government to include their needs at top priority and the power of Closed source proprietary technology to force their way through cannot be easily overcome, given the low political awareness on different technologies by the society and the low-key marketing efforts of the Open Source Technologies. The resulting balance of equilibrium would be loaded to favour an onset of highly exploitative services, under the theme of e-governance, which would have a negative impact on the prosperity of any State, given the accelatory effects that information technology components are known to possess.

The core theme elaborated at the 34th Regional Science Conference at Thrissur on 26 Oct 2002 on 'Social Fairness of Software and its implications for local government' by CK Raju.