Instead the success of electronic governance, as with agricultural crops, lies in promoting diversity of electronic governance models and applications rather than on uniformity. This is because even within the agrarian community the needs of end-users may be very different. A small farmer, who practices sustenance agriculture, may find it more useful to get information on government subsidies on land improvement, rather than on receiving updated market price of crops. Similarly a livestock breeder would find electronic governance application which allows him to explore new marketing opportunities more useful than being able to access copies of land records online.
Diverse electronic governance models bring more number of people into governance sphere and thereby increase the "public value" of information being supplied to the agrarian community.
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