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Chapter 12
Data Modelling of a
Multifaceted Electronic
Card-Based Secure
E-Governance System
ABSTRACT
In the current climate of global economic decline, the developing countries are facing severe challenges in
maintaining an eicient administration within an afordable budget. If this economic slowdown continues,
there will be serious diiculties which will hamper the socio-economic development of the entire region.
To respond to the situation, the governments must reduce budget expenses and still maintain eiciency
and openness. To do so, the administration must deploy ICT-based mechanisms to fulil the desired
objectives. In this chapter, the authors present the development of a multifaceted electronic card-based
secured e-governance mechanism to attempt to redress the inherent issues and explore new dimensions of
interdisciplinary research. The proposed system will also act as the all-purpose electronic identity of the
Citizen and hopefully replace the existing identity instruments such as Voter Card, Permanent Account
Number Card, Driving License, Ration Card, Below Poverty-Line Card, Employment Card, Health Card,
Insurance Card, etc. Moreover, this electronic instrument will also enable Citizen to perform inancial
transactions. Clearly, the authentication procedure of the proposed mechanism must also exist otherwise
the intruders will be able to breach the system and execute their ill intentions. To ensure appropriate-
ness of security features of the mechanism, the authors have also implemented a user authentication
technique using object-oriented modelling of RSA digital signature algorithm for a Government-Citizen
(G2C) type of e-governance. For better management of such a huge amount of sensitive information, the
authors also discuss data modelling techniques used during user authentication of the proposed model.
Abhishek Roy
The University of Burdwan, India
Sunil Karforma
The University of Burdwan, India
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6082-3.ch012