3. The Purpose and Target Audience


The Purpose and  Target Audience

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Digital India is new platform. It is a technology platform. Future of India and its citizens will happen on it. The Indian government has created Digital India Platform for reaching out every citizen online and deliver citizen services electronically. Hence awareness of Digital India movement, it's scope and services must be there for every Indian. Be one living in cities or deep rural India.  Be a housewife or a student or a shopkeeper or an entrepreneur.  Digital India is all inclusive and is for every Indian irrespective of gender and geography or  age or area. It is universal. Digital India is everyone's concern and reality. Hence the first purpose of this book to change this low ratio of Indian residents using Digital India resources and make  them aware of these resources and encourage them to  start using them in their daily life..

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This work (accompanying  presentations, videos)   intends  to put the Digital India resources at the center of every Indian’s  working and personal day-today life and transform her into a empowered DIGITAL INDIA CITIZEN. Digital India projects are built for and meant for every Indian. It is very inclusive in its objectives and services, every Indian will be affected by it and more importantly benefited by that. Making every Digital India citizen , the largest group of people in India aware of these resources and guide them towards  harnessing their potential is the first and foremost objective of this work.
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The second important audience of this (resource) is DIGITAL INDIA WORKER. Digital workers constitute the second largest growing group in India.  These are people  who use digital India infrastructure and resources within the context of their work and professions. They are  employees of state and central government who are directly affected by Digital India programme and working with it,  teachers,  outsourced skilled office workers, business executives who come across situations where digital India can play a key role and contribute towards their accomplishments and success.

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The third intended audience of the book is DIGITAL INDIA SHAPERS. These are the Indians who are playing leading roles within their groups and communities.  They have within them power to use digital India system and services to enhance performance of their own and that of their teams and  shape  new collective future. These digital India shapers can be institutional leaders, communities  leaders , functionaries in local government , people's representatives and more.

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The next important target audience of this resource is the DIGITAL INDIA DEVELOPER. Software applications or simply apps have become the de facto means of building and offering services to both business customers and citizens. In fact today Indian government is offering many of its services through apps.  The futuristic Indian government not only wants to use digital India platform for offering its citizens services. Instead it is opening its platform along with incredible number of software  resources for developers to build and offer innovative services. The digital India platform often technically called IndiaStack  is a set of  layered resources for developers to build and offer innovative apps to billion Indians. For Indian developers this is a dream come true and an emerging market in their own home country.


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Another important audience intended by the book is DIGITAL INDIA INNOVATORS.. These are the small, but significant and rapidly emerging digital Indians who have deep dreams and tall talent to look at digital India infrastructure and come out with innovative product, services and business models. These solutions could be india-specific to be targeted at a section of Indian society say rural or urban. These services  can be for meeting specific in-transition population  - say people who earn and spend all money in cash. The innovator solution can also be with global focus but may start in India and use Digital india as a test bed.

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Another important target audience is DIGITAL INDIA LEADERS whose operative mandate is at state , regional levels. These are people who might carry the baton of national process further into future.  Leaders who are in their mid career stages  and are expected to take India to new but unknown future 

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Another important interested audience of this book is NRIs. They may be interested in knowing the technological developments back in home and would be surprised at the speed of developments  and sophistication of the resulting infrastructure and  their resourcefulness.

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Digital India is a national technology platform built on open, global standards and practices. Its awareness is must for Indians outside India also. The NRI community living around the globe and experiencing technologies in advanced countries must have basic understanding of Digital Technology. Not only they will feel proud about the same, but also find it pleasant surprise when come back home that they can experience global technology within their home also. Entrepreneurial Indians dreaming of making big in advanced countries may find that the technological platform resulting due to Digital India in India is worth considering for their entrepreneurial ventures.

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Digital India is expected to be an indispensable part and parcel of every resident’s daily life. Hence, an added audience is the teachers and parents who might use this resource and illustrations while teaching to inspire students. Parents can use this resource to keep themselves updated about new and emerging Digital India. 

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Last but not least is the social entrepreneurs and change agents who might be interested in seeing how Digital India adds a new dimension and resource pool for them in engaging their audiences, enlarging their base of operations and enriching their stakeholders.