Digital India - Introduction to World's Largest IT Project

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Digital India - Introduction to World's Largest IT project 

  • Digital India is a national program for harnessing digital technologies for improving governance and citizen services delivery mechanisms.

  • Earlier digital technologies meant cloud computing and mobile technologies. But now other technologies such as AI, machine learning and blockchain are also added.

  • The aim of digital india is to deliver citizen services electronically and online. In other words it will transform current paper based, in-person,  brick and mortar model into digital format which is  presence-less, paperless, cashless and Consent-based. Citizen services will be accessible- anytime, anywhere, any device.


Design Guidelines 

  • For Digital India project- Whole of government is treated as a service (provider) Every service is designed and delivered as a digital service. Digital service standards are defined and applied in developing new services. 

  • The Central Government is treated as an enterprise of enterprise. Each department and state government (department) is treated as an enterprise within it. An enterprise architecture framework called IndEA is designed, defined and used by all.

  • Cloud first and mobile first Approach is used in the citizen service life cycle. Cloud first means every service must consider the cloud platform as default destination both for resources and service delivery. For this, government has developed its own private cloud called Meghraj. It provides IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services to various departments.

  • Mobile first means every citizen service must be enabled to be delivered on citizen (end-user) mobile. 


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