India Goes Digital
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India Goes Digital
Digital India is a great concept. Its purpose is DIGITIZING our interactions with the government. It aims to transform governance by adopting digital technologies. A digital government can deliver citizen services electronically and online.
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Digital India Technologies
The main digital technologies deployed are cloud computing , mobile technology and the Internet .
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Digital India Described
Digital India is a brand name denoting a series of e-governance projects undertaken by various government since the 1990s. E-governance projects in the past were undertaken in different departments and in isolation. Digital India consolidates all such projects and takes them further in unison.
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India before Digital India
Before the advent of digital India, citizen services were brick and mortar modelled -
paper based- ration card, marks card..
office bound- visit office to get service/document/ticket
Local- documents are valid locally - Gas connection
involved physical cash -
demanded citizen presence for availing service - senior citizen has to go to bank every year to get living certificate,
required wet signature or thumb impression for agreements or acknowledgements.
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Aadhaar | Resident Unique Identity Number
Digital India has provided each resident a unique 12 digit number called Aadhaar. It is verifiable online and anywhere and any time. Aadhaar is a cradle to grave resident identity number. It is given to the resident after collection of demographic and biometric features and subjecting it to deduplication to establish the resident's uniqueness. As of now more than 1.3 billion Indian residents have been given Aadhaar numbers.
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e-Sign
A resident can attach a legally valid electronic signature to a document and share a signed document with others. e-Sign feature is integrated into the Digilocker system and residents can esign documents within it . This overcomes the need for wet signature
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UPI
Unified payment interface (UPI) is a single interface to all national banks and online wallets. This enables residents to go cashless in transactions. Applications such as BHIM are built using UPI.
India becomes Digital India
Using the above fundamental services, citizen services are delivered electronically and online.
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Service Layers of Digital India
On digital India platform , each of the above systems is built and operated as a seperate layer. These layers are called 1. Presence-less layer, 2. Paperless layer, 3. Cashless layer and 4. Consent layer
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Digital India citizen services are presenceless
The presenceless layer is an online resident identity system using Aadhaar number and biometrics. This is called presence-less because a resident can prove his/her identity online.
Digital India has provided each resident a unique 12 digit number called Aadhaar. It is verifiable online and anywhere and any time. This enables resident to avail service without being present in-person.
Example: A senior citizen can get Jeevan Pramaan certificate from nearest cyber center and submit to bank online.
A resident can book an appointment in a hospital online
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Digital India | Citizens are empowered with Consent Layer
The consent layer aims to maintain security and control of personal data. It is a system which allows users to digitally share their data with service providers in exchange for easier access to credit, insurance and other services. When fully operational, this could bring a big change in the way businesses, individuals, services providers and others use digital data in their day-to-day operations.
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The Digital Indian
A resident or citizen who uses digital India system resources in daily life is called a digital indian, A digital India has Aadhaar number and uses it as primary means of establishing his identity in his business and social interactions. He has created an account on Digilocker. He pulls government issued documents to his digilocker account and may have uploaded his personal docs to digilicker. He shows documents in digilocker as and when authorities demand for that ( railway, traffic ) and shares them electronically from his account. He uses UPI enabled payment systems such as BHIM and e-signs documents
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Digital India Institution
An institution can become a complete digital India institute. Firstly, it has to onboard it's service seekers using Aadhaar authentication. It has procure required document through service seekers digilocker account. It collects service charges using an UPI enabled service. It e-signs service agreements and offers and shares via digilocker. It issues documents to Digilocker accounts to be pulled by service seekers.