7- Practice of Digital India- Power of Digital Technology

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Power of Digital Technology
Digital technology has one distinct quality.  It is not constrained by time and physical space. For example suppose you want to write a letter to some say your parents in a physical world - then you need paper and ink. When you complete your letter you need to walk to nearby post box and post it. It takes some days before it reaches your father. In case you are writing a letter to many people, all the steps needs to repeated for each one of them. It takes time, paper , ink and effort.  All this happens because it is physical in nature


Now come to digital world. You can compose and send an email in few minutes. And reaches the recipient within no time. This is an illustration of eliminating the time and space constraint of physical world by digital world.  This is applicable to many things we did in the past. In the past we use to send money through postal money order. It used to take days. Now with UPI mode, money gets transferred instantly. This is because mode of transmission is digital

The digital India projects intends to use this new property of digital technology to build a New India where everyone is connected and everything is delivered electronically.

Digital Technologies such as Cloud computing and mobile applications have emerged as catalyst for rapid economic growth and citizen empowerment across the globe. Digital Technologies are being increasingly used by us in everyday lives , from retail stores to government offices. They help us connect with each other and also share information on issues and concerns relevant to us. In some cases they also enable resolution of those issues in near real time. Digital India intends to use these in empowering citizens.

 Since Digital technologies overcome traditional barriers of time and space, Digital India will bridge the long standing differences between digital have's and have not's to ensure that government services reach every household in order to create a long-lasting development impact. Digital technologies also bring in greater thrust t promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities. It will also facilitate an an enabling environment for electronic manufacturing on a much larger scale to match the growing needs of the nation.