Emerging technology, like blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, drones, cloud computing — are all on the table of the Narendra Modi government as it pushes ahead to realise the goal of better e-governance for citizens.As part of its vision of providing a One Government experience to citizens, the Modi government is moving forward rapidly to implement the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) — a single window digitisation solution for cashless, paperless and faceless services.
At an e-Governance conference held in Shillong, Meghalaya, earlier this month, representatives of all the state governments and Union Territories, as well as business houses, brainstormed on the way ahead to provide better e-governance, and exchanged success stories of various states that could be adopted at the national level.A Shillong Declaration was adopted as a roadmap of the way forward, at the conclusion of the two-day 22nd National Conference on e-Governance (NCeG) 2019, with special focus on the Northeast, held on August 8-9, in Shillong.
The conference, that saw over 500 delegates attending, with representation from states at the level of Additional Secretary and Principal Secretary, and top representatives of business houses like Wipro, HP and KPMG, was organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), in association with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), and the Meghalaya government.
One of the major issues discussed was having less paper secretariats through working in a global cloud hub. “How much cloud space would the government require to facilitate development of government applications,” a source told IANS.Another important issue discussed was the integration of various e-governance platforms throughout the country. With each government department working on different software systems, a need was also felt to have them all working on a single online platform.
In this context, the participants discussed what would be the cyber security norms required for such a platform and how to create data centres to handle the huge volume of data. Another issue discussed was the need to re-skill staff who are not very user friendly.With digital signature, digital certificate and ‘no files offices’ becoming the norm, sessions were also held on cyber security, on better file management. across states were going on.
