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E-Governance has broader area of implications. It can be used in various aspects of governance system. With the advancement in the sector of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the Governments of economies have stepped forward to adopt e-governance in different service sectors. The growing application of information and communication technologies and their subsequent use on strengthening interaction with citizens has given rise to a new governance paradigm as E-Governance.
The Government of Mongolia declared ICT as one of the key economically important sectors. Approved in 2005 E-Mongolia National Program missions “enhancing people’s life quality by establishing new economic environment, improving country’s competitiveness and providing sustainable development”. Three frameworks dealt within the program that are government-legislation; business-economy; and human development; and four policies of government-to citizens, government-to-business, government-to-government and infrastructure.
In Mongolia has started applying GIS for the development of city address system, utility management and in planning roads. All of these are being addressed in achieving good urban environment through sustainable use of geoinformation management. Many other supporting initiatives had taken place among which are formulation and approval of MNS 5774:2007 (ISO 19115) Spatial information- Metadata standard, and MNS ISO/TS 19104:2012, Spatial information- terminology standard, and mapping and geodetic engineering norms. E-initiatives in the land administration is supported by legal texts stipulated in the Constitution of Mongolia, Geodesy and cartography law, Land law, Cadastral mapping and land cadaster law, Land fee law, and Land ownership by Citizen of Mongolia law etc.
This paper shall review e-governance initiative, actions and challenges faced in the case of Mongolia and develop recommendations.

e-governance; Mongolia; Information and Communication Technologies