India 2018

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Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs): This is government's approach
on the use of Open APIs to promote software interoperability for all e-governance
applications and systems and provide access to data and services for promoting
participation of all stakeholders including citizens.
e-Governance Competency Framework (e-GCF): Its toolkit contains a set of enduser
knowledge areas required for government employees. The objective of the
framework is to strengthen the capacity building scheme to identify and define
competencies, through a competency-based system which is required for
different job roles under e-governance.
In order to transform the quality of services and to provide integrated
services the "eKranti" initiative aims to utilize emerging technologies such as
cloud and mobile platform and focus on integration of services. The principle
of this programme is 'transformation' and not translation, and to provide
integrated services and not individual services. Another important initiative
pertains to 'Jeevan Praman' is of providing an Aadhaar based digital life
certificate for pensioners. A 'Digital Locker system' has also been envisaged to
serve as a platform to enable citizens to securely share their documents with
service providers who can directly access them electronically. 'e-sign' framework
has been released, which would allow citizens to digitally sign a document
online using Aadhaar authentication.
National Scholarship Portal has been developed as a one-stop solution to
implement end-to-end disbursement of the scholarship to the beneficiaries. The
process includes student registration, application, approval and disbursement.
There are 52 registered schemes from eight ministries/departments.
In order to integrate the delivery of government services (across various
departments), an initiative called Mobile Seva has been launched. A portal called
'Vikaspedia' to provide information on health, education, agriculture, energy,
social welfare and e-Governance has been developed in more than 15 languages
with more languages being added.
MyGov.in is an innovative platform launched to ensure citizens'
engagement in decision making by the Government so that the ultimate goal of
"Good Governance" for building India is achieved. This initiative is an
opportunity for citizens and well-wishers from across the world to share their
views on key issues directly with the Prime Minister.
MeitY has developed Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous
feedback for e-services delivered by Government of India and state
governments. This system has multiple channels for receiving feedback and is
backed by analytics.
e-Sampark Database is developed to send messages and emails to public
representatives and government employees. This database has 1.90 crore email
addreses and over 82 crore mobile numbers. The count of mailers is over 301
crore for 563 campaigns.