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9- The Practice of Digital India - Policy Foundations

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Digital India - Policy Foundations The India Government has taken several policy initiatives in the e-Governance domain that are crucial for achieving the vision and objectives of the Digital India programme . Effective implementation of e-Governance is a key component of the out the road-map for implementation of e-Governance projects in the Digital India programme. These policy initiatives are an endeavor to chart out the road-map the implementation of Digital India project in the country. They cover a number of important areas “ The e-Kranti Framework” policy provides the eKranti framework that is an integral part of the Digital India programme. With the vision of “Transforming e-Governance for Transforming Governance”, e-Kranti programme aims towards easy governance, effective governance, good governance and mobile governance. It provides the key principles for revamping the existing projects and also for new and ongoing e-Governance projects. The “Policy on Ad

8- The Practice of Digital India- Digital India Defined

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Digital India defined Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology. It was launched on 2 July 2015. The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks. Digital India consists of three core components. These include: The creation of digital infrastructure Delivery of services digitally Digital literacy

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 natur e 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. Thi

6- The Practice of Digital India- Overview of Digital India Programme

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Overview of Digital India Programme Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity: This initiative aims to ensure mobile connectivity in all parts of the country by 2018. The objective is to provide each citizen of the country with access to mobile networks and associated services. There are a number of services offered by different departments of Government and other basic services such as banking, insurance etc where the mobile number of the resident acts as the authentication for ensuring reliability of services. Hence access to mobile network is essential and there mobile connectivity is  being established.    Public Internet access program This program aims to improve connectivity within the country.  It intend to build common service centers ( CSC) in each gram panchayat and also converting post offices into multi service centers. The CSCs would provide citizens with centers from where they can access to multiple services like utility bill payments, exam records, land rec

5- The Practice of Digital India- Vision of Digital India

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Vision of Digital India Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen : Infrastructure is essential for existence and success. When infrastructure is not available, it makes life very hard. For instance, if a village or town is not connected by road or railway or if the roads are poorly built, then travelling from that village of nearby city takes more effort, consumes more time and make people less productive. Secondly lack of basic infrastructure impedes economic activities and hence progress. Businesses are discouraged to invest money and set up new ventures when an area of village lacks basic infrastructure. One of the reasons for uneven development of India is essentially due to unevenly developed infrastructure. The digital India project addresses this issue head-on. Realising the importance digital infrastructure for individual and institutional connectivity and hence productivity, the project is making all efforts to provide Digital Infrastructure as a utility to ev

4- The Practice of Digital India- The Role of Digital India

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The Role of Digital India Digital India is most dynamic force that is shaping the present and future of India and its population.  It is setting up processes and technologies in place for inclusive growth of every citizen. No project to in Indian history was so deep in dream and so real in deed. Not that earlier India did not take up projects or initiative to help its citizens.  In fact numerous irrigation projects, power generation projects, road construction or building railway lines have been taken in past.   But all those projects reflect the that nature of technologies available at the time of taking up those projects. Most of the projects were physical in nature .  For that reason they were constrained in terms of resources, reach, locality and benefits gained. For example even the biggest irrigation project irrigated lands that looked very large in absolute numbers, but were very small compared to the total area of the country to be irrigated,  thousands of miles roads

3. The Practice of Digital India- The Purpose and Target Audience

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PREFACE The Purpose and Target Audience This book (accompanying 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 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 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 book, The second important audience of this book is Digital 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 may be teachers, office workers, business executives who come across situations where digital India

2- The Practice of Digital India - Story of Eko: Aadhaar enabled Remittance Services