Dawn of Digital India: PM Modi To Inaugurate Digital India Week Today; Rs 2 Lakh Crore Investments

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Dawn of Digital India: PM Modi To Inaugurate Digital India Week Today; Rs 2 Lakh Crore Investments Expected
Posted by: Mohul Ghosh in India July 1, 2015 0

Today, the world will observe the insane possibilities of a truly Digitalized democracy.

In a scale never seen or heard in India, Govt. is all set to kickstart massive Digitalization program across the country today.

At 4 PM in New Delhi, PM Modi will inaugurate Digital India Week, wherein Government’s Digital India vision would be showcased infront of 400 dignitaries. As per the IT Ministry, Rs 2 lakh crore of fresh investments is expected during the next 7 days. This is over and above Rs 1.5 lakh crore budget already announced for the Digital India vision last year.

Thus, the next 7 days will see an inflow and exhibition of around Rs 3.5 lakh crore worth of Digitalization initiatives across the country, supported by both the Govt. and private players.

Some mind boggling facts figures and facts concerning the Digital India Week, staring from July 1st, 2015:

• Some of the dignitaries who would be attending this event: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji. Overall, 10,000 who is who of Indian and International Corporate bigwigs would grace the occasion.
• Invitations have been sent to Bill Gates and Narayan Murthy as well, but they won’t be able to attend the event due to time constraints.
• Overall, 1500 VVIPs would be present, which includes 50 ambassadors and high commissioners.
• The logo of Digital India would be inaugurated using a laser beam
• The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has revealed that Rs 2 lakh crore worth of investments would be announced from domestic as well as International companies.
• Inspired by the magnitude of the program, similar events would be held across 36 states and 600 districts. Some of them being: Entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu will attend the event; Kerala Govt. will launch different plans; Karnataka to hold several events; Telangana will announce new plans; Associations in Jammu & Kashmir are planning events.
• All Universities and Colleges have been asked to provide arrangements for screening of the event at their respective locations. In fact, UGC had even issued a circular on this and shared it with every possible college and varsities.
• Mumbai University has also launched an app for spreading more information about the Digital India week among students.
• IT Ministry has sent directives to all Software Parks (SEZs) in the country, to make sure that their employees are able to view the inauguration at 4PM by PM Modi. In the directive, it has been mentioned that all IT firms must “make arrangements for showcasing the inaugural event in their common area with the available platform at their location”, and must “instruct all employees to watch the main event at their premises through TV/webcasting”

The objective and purpose of this mega event and drive is to create awareness about Digital possibilities, and to spread knowledge about E-governance initiatives. Plans regarding e-education, e-health, telemedicine would be shared, along with e-locker facility, e-filing of all mandatory Government forms, WiFi plans for future, update on National Optical Fiber Network (which is currently being implemented); spread of high speed broadband in rural areas at discounted rates and more.

Here are the official links from where you can watch live streaming of the event:

• Digital India Week: Launching Ceremony (3)
• Digital India Week (4)
• PMO India - YouTube

This is easily one of those unprecedented moments in the history of Indian business and technology, which can totally alter the way our economy is growing forward. We are eagerly looking forward to this event, and strongly encourage all our readers to watch it too.

The new dawn of digital era can pave the way to a new future.

Dawn of Digital India: PM Modi To Inaugurate Digital India Week Today; Rs 2 Lakh Cr Investments Expected

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Digital India: 15 salient things to know about PM Narendra Modi's project
By ECONOMICTIMES.COM | 1 Jul, 2015, 01.21PM IST

The vision of Digital India programme also aims at inclusive growth in areas of electronic services, products, manufacturing and job opportunities etc.

NEW DELHI: Moving ahead on yet another pet project, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch the 'Digital India' campaign, aimed at creating a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy,

The programme compromised of various initiatives, each targeted to prepare India for becoming a knowledge economy and for bringing good governance to citizens through synchronized and co-ordinated engagement of the entire government.

PM Modi will launch the Digital India Week on Wednesday evening urging people to gain knowledge and to empower themselves through the Digital India Programme.

The vision of Digital India programme also aims at inclusive growth in areas of electronic services, products, manufacturing and job opportunities etc. The vision of Digital India is centred on three key areas -

(i) Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen

(ii) Governance & services on demand

(iii) Digital Empowerment of citizens

The Digital India programme aims to provide broadband highways, universal access to mobile connectivity, public internet access programme, e-governance: Reforming government through technology, eKranti - Electronic delivery of services, Information for all, Electronics manufacturing: Target net zero imports, IT for jobs and early harvest programmes.

In line with these objectives, the government has launched some inititaives. Others are being readied for launch. We take a look at some of them:

1. Digital Locker System aims to minimize the usage of physical documents and enable sharing of e-documents across agencies. The sharing of the e-documents will be done through registered repositories thereby ensuring the authenticity of the documents online, says the government.

2. MyGov.in has been implemented as a platform for citizen engagement in governance, through a "Discuss", "Do" and "Disseminate" approach. The mobile app for MyGov would bring these features to users on a mobile phone.

3. Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app would be used by people and Government organizations for achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission.

4. eSign framework would allow citizens to digitally sign a document online using Aadhaar authentication.

5. The Online Registration System (ORS) under the eHospital application has been introduced. This application provides important services such as online registration, payment of fees and appointment, online diagnostic reports, enquiring availability of blood online etc, the government claims.

6. National Scholarships Portal is said to be a one stop solution for end to end scholarship process right from submission of student application, verification, sanction and disbursal to end beneficiary for all the scholarships provided by the Government of India.

7. DeitY has undertaken an initiative namely Digitize India Platform (DIP) for large scale digitization of records in the country that would facilitate efficient delivery of services to the citizens.

8. The Government of India has undertaken an initiative namely Bharat Net, a high speed digital highway to connect all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats of country. This would be the world's largest rural broadband connectivity project using optical fibre.

9. Policy initiatives have also been undertaken by DeitY in the e-Governance domain like e-Kranti Framework, Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India, Framework for Adoption of Open Source Software in e-Governance Systems, Policy on Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Government of India, E-mail Policy of Government of India, Policy on Use of IT Resources of Government of India, Policy on Collaborative Application Development by Opening the Source Code of Government Applications, Application Development & Re-Engineering Guidelines for Cloud Ready Applications

10. BSNL has introduced Next Generation Network (NGN), to replace 30 year old exchanges, which is an IP based technology to manage all types of services like voice, data, multimedia/ video and other types of packet switched communication services.

11. BSNL has undertaken large scale deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country. The user can latch on the BSNL Wi-Fi network through their mobile devices.

12. BPO Policy has been approved to create BPO centres in different North Eastern states and also in smaller / mofussil towns of other states.

13. Electronics Development Fund (EDF) Policy aims to promote Innovation, R&D, and Product Development and to create a resource pool of IP within the country to create a self-sustaining eco-system of Venture Funds.

14. National Centre for Flexible Electronics (NCFlexE) is an initiative of Government of India to promote research and innovation in the emerging area of Flexible Electronics.

15. Centre of Excellence on Internet on Things (IoT) is a joint initiative of Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), ERNET and NASSCOM.

"The estimated impact of Digital India by 2019 would be cross cutting, ranging from broadband connectivity in all Panchayats, Wi-fi in schools and universities and Public Wi-Fihotspots. The programme will generate huge number of IT, Telecom and Electronics jobs, both directly and indirectly. Success of this programme will make India Digitally empowered and the leader in usage of IT in delivery of services related to various domains such as health, education, agriculture, banking, etc," the government claims.

Digital India: 15 salient things to know about PM Narendra Modi's project - The Economic Times

 

[graphican]

That is an excellent initiative. Now this is something you can actually appreciate.

 

[Perpendicular]

India needs to create a national database to identify, track, record of every single individual Indian citizen. Really would like to see that in effect like most developed nations have got.
For a start E passports and thumb print identification at Airports for Indian citizens.

 

[Mukunda Murthi Rao]

I would really like to make india a cashless economy. If internet reaches every part of india, we can achieve a cashless economy, wherein the menace of corruption and black money can be eradicated.
Also we need to back this initiative with robust cyber security infrastructure, as a digital india will make a very enticing target for sabotage

 

[uparyupari]

I would really like to make india a cashless economy. If internet reaches every part of india, we can achieve a cashless economy, wherein the menace of corruption and black money can be eradicated.
Also we need to back this initiative with robust cyber security infrastructure, as a digital india will make a very enticing target for sabotage

That would also mean zero black money.

 

[Echo_419]

Dawn of Digital India: PM Modi To Inaugurate Digital India Week Today; Rs 2 Lakh Crore Investments Expected
Posted by: Mohul Ghosh in India July 1, 2015 0

Today, the world will observe the insane possibilities of a truly Digitalized democracy.

In a scale never seen or heard in India, Govt. is all set to kickstart massive Digitalization program across the country today.

At 4 PM in New Delhi, PM Modi will inaugurate Digital India Week, wherein Government’s Digital India vision would be showcased infront of 400 dignitaries. As per the IT Ministry, Rs 2 lakh crore of fresh investments is expected during the next 7 days. This is over and above Rs 1.5 lakh crore budget already announced for the Digital India vision last year.

Thus, the next 7 days will see an inflow and exhibition of around Rs 3.5 lakh crore worth of Digitalization initiatives across the country, supported by both the Govt. and private players.

Some mind boggling facts figures and facts concerning the Digital India Week, staring from July 1st, 2015:

• Some of the dignitaries who would be attending this event: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji. Overall, 10,000 who is who of Indian and International Corporate bigwigs would grace the occasion.
• Invitations have been sent to Bill Gates and Narayan Murthy as well, but they won’t be able to attend the event due to time constraints.
• Overall, 1500 VVIPs would be present, which includes 50 ambassadors and high commissioners.
• The logo of Digital India would be inaugurated using a laser beam
• The Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has revealed that Rs 2 lakh crore worth of investments would be announced from domestic as well as International companies.
• Inspired by the magnitude of the program, similar events would be held across 36 states and 600 districts. Some of them being: Entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu will attend the event; Kerala Govt. will launch different plans; Karnataka to hold several events; Telangana will announce new plans; Associations in Jammu & Kashmir are planning events.
• All Universities and Colleges have been asked to provide arrangements for screening of the event at their respective locations. In fact, UGC had even issued a circular on this and shared it with every possible college and varsities.
• Mumbai University has also launched an app for spreading more information about the Digital India week among students.
• IT Ministry has sent directives to all Software Parks (SEZs) in the country, to make sure that their employees are able to view the inauguration at 4PM by PM Modi. In the directive, it has been mentioned that all IT firms must “make arrangements for showcasing the inaugural event in their common area with the available platform at their location”, and must “instruct all employees to watch the main event at their premises through TV/webcasting”

The objective and purpose of this mega event and drive is to create awareness about Digital possibilities, and to spread knowledge about E-governance initiatives. Plans regarding e-education, e-health, telemedicine would be shared, along with e-locker facility, e-filing of all mandatory Government forms, WiFi plans for future, update on National Optical Fiber Network (which is currently being implemented); spread of high speed broadband in rural areas at discounted rates and more.

Here are the official links from where you can watch live streaming of the event:

• Digital India Week: Launching Ceremony (3)
• Digital India Week (4)
• PMO India - YouTube

This is easily one of those unprecedented moments in the history of Indian business and technology, which can totally alter the way our economy is growing forward. We are eagerly looking forward to this event, and strongly encourage all our readers to watch it too.

The new dawn of digital era can pave the way to a new future.

Dawn of Digital India: PM Modi To Inaugurate Digital India Week Today; Rs 2 Lakh Cr Investments Expected

Its showing in DD news right now.

Brilliant program by PM watching right now

That is an excellent initiative. Now this is something you can actually appreciate.

This would go a long way to reduce corruption & improve the overall efficiency of the economy

 

[nair]

Very good initiative.....

 

[Manindra]

That is an excellent initiative. Now this is something you can actually appreciate.

Excellent idea, I enrolled today but need some rejig as website crashing regularly.

 

[OrionHunter]

Wow! I thought Toyota was all about cars! But they're into power and electronics too!

P.S. Will BSNL increase my internet speed from a crappy 2 Mbps to at least 20 Mbps now??

 

[ROCKING]

Wow! I thought Toyota was all about cars! But they're into power and electronics too!

Hero Group as well

 

[ito]

A great initiative to connect 1.3 billion Indians. A great boost to new age companies and startups. This has the potential to transform eCommerce, agribusiness, healthcare, and e-governance and many more sectors across the country.

 

[OrionHunter]

As per the IT Ministry, Rs 2 lakh crore of fresh investments is expected during the next 7 days. This is over and above Rs 1.5 lakh crore b

PM Modi in his speech today mentioned an investment of $ 70 billion for Digital India!!

 

[Echo_419]

Hero Group as well

What are the products of hero group in this sector

 

[magudi]

Over the last 10 years BSNL has been mismanaged to ruin. This company in 2004 was a public taxpayer owned asset valued at over 6 billion USD. and today it is requiring from the taxpayers additional 40,000 crores to revive itself ! What do you think we should say to that. - @OrionHunter @Nandy9