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             Previous                               The Practice of  Digital India                     Next  Digital India Unbound Today in India we have available enough infrastructure, knowledge, exposure and experience needed for the successful practice of Digital India. However the percentage of people who are aware of these resources and applying them in their daily life for professional and personal purposes is very small compared to rest of the population. Let me give you an example.   As part of digital India citizen services suite  the Indian government has made available a world class secure digital storage service called Digilocker . Digilocker is open and available to every Indian resident having Aadhaar number or mobile.  Residents can store and share documents securely. However the the number of Indian residents who have created accounts on Digilocker and using it on regular basis is very small. In my opinion  every college going student in India  should ha

Digital India Citizen Services: Digilocker

Digilocker, as the name suggests, is the digital locker is launched by the Government of India. It is a dedicated personal space linked to each resident’s Aadhaar Digilocker  is a cloud storage and is one step forward towards the Digital India dream. One might wonder, as we we already have cloud storage  services like Google Drive or Dropbox, then why do we need  one more such service. The answer is very simple and straightforward. Digilocker is a cloud storage service to avail Government services, which can used for personal storage also by residents Digilocker account is linked to resident’s Aadhaar number Used to securely  store e-documents as well as store Uniform Resource identifier (URI) link of e-document issued by various issuer departments The e-sign facility provided as part of Digilocker system can be used to digitally sign e-documents How digilocker is helps citizens (1) Minimize use of physical documents (2) provides authenticity of the e-document (3) pr

With (1) National Information Infrastructure (NII)  in place, (2)  Citizens enabled with Digital Infrastructure as an utility to every citizen, and (3) Aadhaar as national resident authentication tool implemented, both government and citizens are ready for on boarding to Digital India Platform.  It  is time for government to launch citizen services on Digital India platform. The second vision area of Digital India stipulates to “Deliver governance and services on-demand”. The government has rolled out the following services so far and list is expected to grow as the time passes e-Kranti : service is one of the most crucial initiative of Digital India, involving provision of services like e-health care, technology for justice , E-education and more. E-healthcare would cover online medical consultation, online medical records, online medicine supply, pan-India exchange of patient information. Medical records of each patient, including multimedia data like CT scans, X-rays, and MRIs

4. Readying Government for Digital India service delivery To deliver citizen services electronically, the government needs to build digital infrastructure. To be sure, Digital India is the continuation of earlier government efforts to digitize government operations. Earlier efforts were called e-governance initiatives. Digital India infrastructure building process takes 2 forms. (1) investing in new infrastructure and (2) consolidating the existing e-infrastructure built for various projects. An important aspect of broadband highway initiative is the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). NII is supposed to be implemented by integrating the already existing networks like National Knowledge Network ( NKN), State Wide Area Network(SWAN), Government User Network (GUN), National Optical Fiber Network ( NOFN) and MeghRaj Cloud. NII will provide high speed Internet connectivity to Government entities by accessing the network and cloud infrastruct

Digital India is comprehensive program. It aims to deliver citizen services electronically. To realize this dream, the government has come out with detailed set of proposals. These proposals can be grouped into “ enablers “ and “ citizen services” Enablers: The first category of proposals are called “ enablers” because they enable citizens with technology to access and avail citizen services. The following are proposals comes under this category Universal access to mobile connectivity:   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 is an assorted set of services offered by government departments and other basic services such as banking , insurance where mobile number of the citizen acts as authentication for ensuring reliability of services. Hence citizen’s access to this infrastructure mobile connectivity is pivotal for successful de