The Structure of Digital India

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STRUCTURE OF DIGITAL INDIA PLATFORM 

Digital India platform consists of three distinct components. They are  (1) Infrastructure ,(2) services and (3) empowerment.  Infrastructure provides digital foundation.  Services are built by government agencies or departments to meet the needs of citizens,  Empowerment  is the resulting citizen welfare. 


DIGITAL INDIA INFRASTRUCTURE 

Infrastructure is an assorted set technology building blocks required delivering citizen services. It consists of nationwide networks connecting rural areas and state capitals, national cloud infrastructure, online resident identity system.  By 2019 there are 30 infrastructure components operating ( https://digitalindia.gov.in/infrastructure ) 


DIGITAL INDIA SERVICES 

Digital India programme,  in essence, is about delivering citizen services electronically and online.  Towards this end, the project has built a digital platform  platform and core (generic) citizen services for each Indian resident. These include a unique identity number, Aadhaar, a cloud based document storage system, Digilocker, a digital signature system- e-sign and resident data privacy, protection and sharing system.  Initially various government departments built services to serve specific sections of population such as senior citizens.. And later even private companies also harnessing these services.   By the end of 2019, there are 69 service up and running

CORE SERVICES :

A set of digital India services aimed at every resident or citizen are called core services. They are (1)  Digital Resident  identity - Aadhaar, (2) Cloud Storage - Digilocker, (3) Digital signature - e-sign, (4) Online payments-  BHIM (UPI).  


SECTORAL SERVICES: 

The rest of the services are called sectoral services and  are  aimed at a section of society- such as students, farmers, teachers,  senior citizens, enterprises , women, people with disabilities and such sections of society. 


EMPOWERMENT

Empowerment is ways in which Digital India's platform is used by government to build citizen welfare services to meet specific needs of citizens.- Jeevan Praman for senior citizens.

OPEN NATURE OF DIGITAL INDIA PLATFORM 

Digital India platform is using open government principles. Government has adopted Open  Government data (OGD) and Open API policies. This enables government to allow private entities to access government owned data and infrastructure. This encourages creative use of Digital India platform for social and business innovation. By the end of 2019,  thousands of open data sets and Open API are available (https://digitalindia.gov.in/content/open-data)


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