Thin Clients: Secure and Cost Effective Client Access Devices for Government Organizations

The Vision of Government of India, for making Citizen services accessible to the common man, is slowly shaping up. Most of the Government enterprises are investing on IT and ICT resources. Almost all of the Government departments have series of Personal Computers, which they use as Client access devices for day to day working. This paper is a study and discussion of the using Thin Clients as an alternative to Standard Personal Computers. The paper discusses the advantages of using Thin Clients for e-Governance Infrastructure and their advantages in terms of easy management, low administrative overheads, better Security, lower Total Cost of Ownership and higher Return on Investment.