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Similarly, certain data has tremendous commercial value and its leakage may adversely affect the business profits of organisations. For instance, take the example of the business process outsourcing industry that relies heavily upon data protection requirements. If crucial data like credit cards details is not protected by any law, the same would give rise to many sorts of crimes.

A data centre is, usually, a cool room housing servers that stores and transmits information on websites and internal enterprise applications. These data centres can be captive, held by enterprises, or independent data centres (IDCs). Often captives become IDCs catering to other enterprises as well. Some IDCs lease their space to host service providers, who manage websites for a third party.

The database of the drug manufacturers licensed under the state drug controller will be consolidated at state level for preparing the national list. The drug regulator is planning to prepare a common format and software, to be distributed in every state, for collecting the information in a uniform manner, according to regulatory sources.

"Mobile broadband will be the backbone of 'Digital India'. Building smart cities, creating new businesses and e-commerce opportunities, being able to access e-government services or improving the delivery of education, healthcare and financial services are many of the benefit that rely on broadband connectivity.

India, with the rest of the world, is reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic-lockdown-recession. However when it ends we can hope for a quick recovery that will fast-track us. That will happen only if we upgrade ourselves with Deep Tech, specifically the 3As and 1C.

The task is cut out for the government and industry to take India into the next stage of development from 2021 onward. A host of emerging technologies will upgrade India and make the lives of all its citizens that much better. A look at these technologies…

"Delhi was voted the best e-governed state by its denizens for meeting nine out of 14 parameters set for the survey," Dataquest's chief editor Prasanto K Roy said in a statement in Bangalore on Friday evening.

Narendra Modi’s government has set reduction of wastage from social security schemes as one of its primary goals. However, inefficiencies in public service delivery will not be minimised if Indian ministries and departments don’t start working together, the former Chief Financial Officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India told FutureGov.

"Our agenda is to assist people in saving money," Modi said, flagging off the Yatra, the government's mega outreach exercise to ensure saturation coverage of central initiatives

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said hundreds of small cities have a key role in achieving the resolve of a developed India by 2047 and his government was upgrading basic facilities in such urban centres to improve ease of living.

Interacting with the beneficiaries of central schemes during the ongoing Vikasit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, the prime minister said his government is committed to saving money for urban families, who have benefited from initiatives such as Ayushman Bharat health insurance and housing for all.

A pet project of PM Modi, Dholera smart city has been shaping up at some speed. The first phase, spread over 22.5 sq km, is expected to be completed by 2025-26, officials say.

Large tracts of lush green fields, farmers tending to crops, villagers sitting in the open on cots, cattle roaming around — the rural setting as one enters Dholera village, some 100 km southwest of Ahmedabad, is quite a contrast to the shiny, hi-tech new industrial city that is coming up in the vicinity as a part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).

When Mrinalini Kaura, the principal of Venkateshwar International School (VIS) in Dwarka, New Delhi, heard of this concept, she did not think twice before digitising 45 classrooms. Barely a few months into revamping the classrooms, Kaura was so impressed with the results that she plans to implement it in the remaining 23 classes of her school.

Kaura says she sees digital classrooms as the way ahead for all schools because it makes both teaching and learning simple: Better assessment system, real-time paper evaluation and abstract concepts made easy to understand.

Digital India is an initiative by Government of India to make sure that all Government work go online which will help citizens to avail benefits and get their work done easily and transparently. It will also help in reducing paper work. It will help in reducing corruption if implemented on whole. It will help in getting things done quickly.

It will help in reducing paper work. Some of the facilities which will be provided through this dream initiative are Digital Locker, e-education, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal. Connecting every Indian on a common platform will finally create one country. Each Indian will be able to talk to another Indian somewhere, create groups on a common platform, at low cost synchronously and asynchronously

Since independence we hear India is developing country. When are we going to hear India is emerged country? The phase is slowly moving forward to compete with digital world. In order to compete with digital world, we need to transform our country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy. As result of high and forward thinking of our prime minister, a pan India Programme called “Digital India” has been proposed in the Budget 2014.

The Government’s ambitious “Digital India” plan aims to digitally connect all of India's villages and gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. By the year 2019, the ‘Digital India’ program of the Government of India (GOI), envisages that 250,000 Indian villages will enjoy broadband connectivity, and universal phone connectivity. This is a truly visionary and commendable initiative. However, to implement this vision in a country where most of the population resides in rural areas is very challenging. It can best be done by creating Digital “Town Squares” – which will be tower-based sites that enable the Smart Village and would become the focal point for the providing information, social, e-learning and e-governance services to villages. This can become the spring board for rapid economic growth in the rural areas.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley has created a lot of buzz lately. While addressing the CEO’s of the top tech companies of Silicon Valley in San Jose, Modi said, “Digital India is an enterprise for the transformation of India in a scale unmatched in human history. Nothing else will do in a country with 800 million impatient youngsters waiting for change.”Highlighting the importance of being connected, he called Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – The ‘new neighbourhoods of the world’. This address by Modi was received well by the CEOs.

Under Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”.

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Under Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. The award was announced under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category. The DataSmart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-based decision-making in cities.

Last week Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) proposed a plan of launching all public services on mobile phones. The DARPG reports directly to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the report was prepared along with Nasscom and KPMG.

The ‘Digital India’ initiative which was launched almost a year ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be starting soon with government services will be available on mobile phones in the next five years. This E-governance move through ‘Digital India’ initiative will be helpful for citizens who don’t have to visit offices for their small work to be done and will become much easier for them to get their work done efficiently with convenience.

With 2019 election results on the cards, here’s what went right and wrong under the government’s flagship initiative Digital India

Among all the initiatives launched by the NDA government targeting national development, a large share of attention was dedicated to Digital India. Arguably, the most prominent government program, its idea was to adopt a transformative approach led by digitization across the country. And although Digital India received a fair amount of appreciation for its vision and missions, it possibly set the stage for a larger scope of change and development through tech utility – hauling in local players, investments, and ventures, as well as making inroads into India’s hinterlands. That said, with election results inbound, here’s an analysis about the hits, misses, and scope of the government’s flagship initiative.

Prior to exploring the innumerable possibilities of ‘Digital India’, let us first understand the concept of the program. This is a program intended to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The idea is to provide people with a ‘cradle to grave identity’ that is “unique, lifelong and online.” The authorities have conveyed that the overall scope of this program is to prepare India to have the requisite knowledge to be equipped for the future and make technology the center that enables change. It envisions becoming the umbrella program across sectors. The project focuses on being transformative that helps realize the popular equation i.e. IT+IT= IT, which means India Today + Information Technology = India Tomorrow.

With over 1.25 Billion people, the only sustainable means in India for delivering services from the government to the citizens in a transparent and timely manner is through the Internet. This makes the need for a designing Citizen Experience with the least common denominator in mind a strategic imperative for PM Narendra Modi’s Digital India.

The Internet has  in recent years emerged as a great leveller. It cuts across all of the traditional divisions and segments of society and is the most equitable means of providing access to government services at all levels.  A greater government focus of leveraging the power of this medium was long overdue. To address this need, our prime minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Digital India initiative with great fanfare this past week and also laid out a grand vision this program is intended to achieve on many dimensions from rural health and education to manufacturing and financial inclusion.

Digital infrastructure may not be of much help in addressing governance and development concerns unless it is integrated into the wider structural and institutional reforms

Digital India is the flavour of the season, and not without any reason.

Digital technologies have permeated into more and more aspects of our private and public life spaces. A lot of us increasingly depend on them to order groceries, book a taxi ride or train and flight tickets, file tax returns and apply for a passport. The entire basket of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which include laptops, tablets, smartphones, broadband and Wi-Fi connectivity, are seen to represent a new wave of general purpose technologies, similar to what electricity was in the early 20th century and steam engines were in the early 19th century. On the other hand, India, home to the second largest population in the world and witness to relatively higher economic growth rates in the past few years, is seen as an important market, still untapped in terms of usage of digital technologies. All this leads up to the, not so unsurprising, optimism and euphoria that engulfs our current set of policy makers and large global corporates that sell and, often control, important components of these digital technologies.