IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Despite years of considerable economic growth, India continues to suffer from massive corruption. Furthermore, while the country has a plethora of social and infrastructure projects to help redistribute some of this wealth to the sizable impoverished population, funds and materials meant for these programs often tend to dissipate as they move across the country’s vast geography. ‘Favors’ and ‘fees’ inappropriately levied by individuals wielding power keep what is already a limited supply of resources from reaching the populations it is meant for. At the ESRI user conference last month, Sam Pitroda, an advisor to the Indian Prime Minister, described the government’s effort to eliminate the country’s widespread corruption with a data-driven approach: an integrated GIS system. Mr. Pitroda believes that GIS databases combined with a national identification number given to every citizen and bound to every relevant record pertaining to them can fix this system that has so long resisted remediation. Only time will tell, but the transparency of geospatially tracking populations and funds holds definite promise of solving this seemingly intractable problem.

Local government has the unique role and responsibility to develop, control and regulate the geographic, social, and economic environment of a defined local area. In democratic societies, local government also informs and involves citizens in policy and operational areas. When these functions are carried out well, the overall quality of life for citizens and ratepayers is enhanced.

Die KOMCOM, Deutschlands führende IT-Fachmesse für den Public Sector, wird es 2004 im Doppelpack geben. Neben der KOMCOM in Mannheim, die vom 25. bis 27. Mai stattfindet, wird es bereits vorher am 25. und 26. Februar eine zweitägige Veranstaltung in Hannover geben.

In general, Uy envisions a new generation of Filipinos that transition from becoming merely consumers of technology and its products to becoming creators that help to build and improve on technology that results in improved personal productivity. The Philippine Digital Strategy (PDS) will hopefully bring better education and stronger economies as well as a better quality of life for all Filipinos. Uy goals include creating a high level leadership, upgrade and improve the government's IT infrastructure; and improving intergovernmental coordination to enhance government services.

Since road infrastructure is one of the key drivers of the City’s socio-economic growth, BBMP decided to use GIS to completely transform the way it manages its road network.

“Städte in 3D” startet in Europa gleichzeitig in sechs Ländern: in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, den Niederlanden und Spanien.Viele Kommunalverwaltungen haben bereits die raumbezogenen Daten für Visualisierungen gesammelt - oder sogar schon konkret in die Entwicklung von 3D-Modellen investiert.

According to Subbarao, India is heading towards the imagery of 1:10,000 (size/resolution) which will have extreme clarity in the maps of India.

“As of now, we are looking at a three-year time frame to have the 1:10,000 resolution images uploaded for public use,” he said.

Speaking to over a hundred senior IT decision makers from some of Asia’s fastest growing cities, Quek highlighted how GIS technology is the glue of Big Data for city planning.

Fueling the future: with a high quality of life, smart cities will be sustainable, safe, economically dynamic and much more efficient, thanks to advanced digital technologies.

Think about many of the greatest cities of antiquity, centers such as Babylon, Constantinople or Carthage. Now, juxtapose them with today’s significant metropolises, centers like New York, Tokyo or New Delhi. What do they all have in common? A single element that dictates the success of virtually every city, even in the modern age — geography of course! There can be little doubt that when it comes to the success of cities, location is king.

Esri India is using dashboards, maps and geographic information systems (GIS) to help government agencies monitor the Covid-19 situation

One of the underlying technologies in several of the daily digital services people use today is geographic information systems (GIS). More recently, it has been helping governments tackle Covid-19 for over a year. “In three days time when Covid hit India for the first time, we helped several states establish a control room/dashboard for monitoring the pandemic spread and containment,” says Agendra Kumar, MD, Esri India. Today, National Disaster Management Authority, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Bihar, Punjab, Karnataka, Ladakh and several other state governments use Esri India’s technology in tackling and monitoring Covid-19.

The subject is said to be derived from our daily lives as it is a part of it. The programme has been designed and developed with the help of experts from IIT, IIIT, ISRO, DRDO, C-DAC and also various other universities across India as well.

Geo-spatial technologies can be instrumental in more than one ways to help public healthcare activities throughout their life-cycle. As shown in the figure, GIS systems allow development of various health related maps, undertake spatial analysis on health data, create simulation models for various disease spreads and increasingly provide ‘up to date’event information right on the user’s mobile. Applications like disease surveillance systems, emergency planning systems and real-time response monitoring systems are transforming the way public healthcare systems used to operate traditionally. Remote Sensing technologies, an aspect of GIS, can help model spread of diseases through satellite imagery by isolating areas that are more susceptible to the disease spread. Studies have also brought in a complete new paradigm linking meteorology – climate change studies – GIS, remote sensing and disease spread monitoring.

A consolidated national-level Geographical Information System (GIS), which will help the government deliver various public services efficiently, is ready and “we plan to take it to the Cabinet shortly,” Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister on Infrastructure, said on Saturday.

Addressing the delegates of an international conference on ‘Leading organisational transformation for effective delivery', organised by the Centre of Excellence for Change Management, through videoconferencing from San Francisco, he said that India had 30 departments using different GIS for delivery of service. They include Telecommunication, Electricity, and Water Supply.

The civic body has proposed these plans, which will cost around Rs 24.8 crore, in its annual budget draft for the year 2013-14. The AMC plans to implement these by 2014.

The convergence of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) has unearthed several real-world applications for the new concept, and completely revolutionized the sector in a number of ways. To truly understand how the marriage of AI and GIS could benefit governments and private entities, we must first understand what GIS is used for. 

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are complex and intuitive computer systems, which help capture, collect, store, check, process, analyse, and manage geographical data. This software displays various types of information such as: streets, buildings, vegetation, and much more. Thousands of organizations across the world utilize GIS to create detailed maps, share information, identify problems, monitor changes, manage and respond to emerging events, and understand trends. This basic understanding of what GIS can do is enough to reveal potential real-world applications of such technology.  

Heard of e-governance, e-commerce, e-banking, e–learning: but many of us might not be knowing G-governance. “G-governance” or good governance is a relatively new term that is often used to describe the desired objective of a nation-state’s political development. The principles of good governance, however, are not new. Good governance is, in short, efficient administrative set-up that is accountable, effective and efficient, participatory, transparent, responsive, consensus-oriented, and equitable. These are the major characteristics of good governance as outlined by the United Nations.

The World Leaders at the 2005 World Summit concluded that good governance is integral to economic growth, the eradication of poverty and hunger, and sustainable development. The views of all oppressed groups, including women, youth and the poor, must be heard and considered by governing bodies because they will be the ones most negatively affected if good governance is not achieved.

Satellite imagery, data compilation and projection of the findings as per geographical map of the state up to the level of blocks has been carried out by Jharkhand Space Application Centre that was formally unveiled by deputy chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday.

The K-GIS portal launched at BengaluruITE.biz 2016 helps government officials track progress and identify gaps in governance

The Karnataka Geographic Information System or K-GIS portal was launched by IT Minister Priyank Kharge and the department’s Principal Secretary V Manjula.