Digital Empowerment - a word that implies a digital world - where population is digitally literate; adequate Digital Infrastructure and availability/accessibility to everyone assured; Universal digital literacy exists; resources are digitally available and accessible in local languages; Mutual digital stages for participative governance and transferability of entitlements for individuals, happening through the Cloud. This book "Digital Empowerment -a cornerstone for eGovernance" presents the Indian Government authorities hard work, determination, continuity, experience and knowledge sharing of their achievements of transformation from Digital India to Digitally Empowered India. Embracing the select 'e' and 'm' Governance projects, the book provides a platform to the CSI Nihilent eGovernance Awards (CNeGA) 2017 participants to share their experiences, as well as enabling them to put their contributions to make the country Digitally Empowered. The projects present an insight of critical success factors to gain the set targets of the project, categorized further in result and enablers indicators. The projects on 'e' and 'm' Governance initiatives are associated with Infrastructure, Scholarship, Women Empowerment and Safety, Mid-day meal, General Administration, Transportation, Health, Payment, Electricity services, Grievance redressal, Human Resourses and Financial services etc. For eGovernance practitioners, canvassers and professionals, compendium published under the series 'Selected e-Governance Initiatives' by Computer Society of India's Special Interest Group on eGovernance (CSI-SIGeGov) persist to endow with a rich source of information for discerned readers.