Digital India

DIGITAL INDIA

Digital India
A programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy

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What is Digital India?
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Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future.
The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT
The focus is on making technology central to enabling change.
It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments.
 It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
 Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture.
 It is coordinated by DeitY, implemented by the entire government.
 The weaving together makes the Mission transformative in totality

 The Programme:
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Pulls together many existing schemes.
These schemes will be restructured and re-focused.
They will be implemented in a synchronized manner.
Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost.

 The common branding of programmes as Digital India highlights their transformative impact.

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Vision of Digital India
Centered on 3 Key Areas
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Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen

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Governance & Services on Demand

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Digital Empowerment of Citizens

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Vision Area 1: Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
• High speed internet as a core utility
• Cradle to grave digital identity -unique, lifelong, online, authenticable • Mobile phone & Bank account enabling participation in digital & financial space
• Easy access to a Common Service Centre
• Shareable private space on a public cloud
• Safe and secure Cyber-space

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Vision Area 2: Governance & Services On Demand
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Seamlessly integrated across departments or jurisdictions
Services available in real time from online &mobile platform
All citizen entitlements to be available on the cloud
Services digitally transformed for improving Ease of Doing