India is certainly on a growth path. We have lost enough of time in the past but now the time has come that we should cash in the opportunity.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday July 1, 2015 launched the ‘Digital India Week’ witnessed by around 10,000 guests including top notch industry leader. The aim is to make citizens digitally literate and provide e-governance to the society.
His 10 points vision talks about:
- myGov.in, allow citizen to participate in Government’s discussion through Mobile
Products should be created in different languages and age groups to address the Population of 125 crore internet users - Employment for around 18 lakh people
- Digital Godowns to serve as bank lockers to protect important documents
- Bharat Net, to connect to all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats of country would be world’s largest rural
- Broadband Connectivity project using optical fibre.
- WI-FI hotspot throughout the country through BSNL
- The Online Registration System (ORS) that will provide important services under eHospital
- eSign Framework to help citizens digitally sign a document with Aadhaar authentication.
- Swatchh Bharat Mission Mobile app, to achieve the Swachh Bharat goals
- DeitY under Digitize India Platform for large scale digitazation
Commenting on digital India Sanjay Rohatgi, APJ Sales Leader, Enterprise Security, Symantec says “The ‘Digital India’ program can indeed empower inclusive and sustainable growth by harnessing the power of talent and technology to create the India of tomorrow. With initiatives such as countrywide broadband access and digital locker linked with Aadhaar and mobile, the possibilities are endless. However, people, their information and country’s critical information infrastructure needs to be properly and adequately secured. As the largest cybersecurity organization globally, Symantec is committed to the Digital India initiative. Recognizing the goals of the “Digital India” agenda and inspired by the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Modi and Minister for Communication and Information Technology Mr. Prasad, Symantec recently announced a partnership with NASSCOM that intends to train 50,000 cyber security professionals.”
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft says “Microsoft is proud to be a part of Digital India launch and believe that technology can uniquely support the government’s initiatives in key areas including: rural internet connectivity, digital cloud services for all its citizens, and communications and productivity services for the Government. Our focus is on empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Likewise, the Digital India initiative is focused on harnessing the power of technology to help India transform. In fact, to help drive this transformation we are bringing our marquee cloud services – Microsoft Azure, Dynamics and Office 365 – to local datacenters in India to accelerate cloud innovation, connect every Indian and every Indian business to the world through our global hyper-scale cloud. I would like to congratulate and extend my best wishes to the Honorable Prime Minister, and the Honorable IT Minister and every Indian citizen and business on this occasion.”
“IESA lauds Indian Government’s Digital India initiative. It is a colossal project even on a global scale, delivering services digitally to every one of 1.2 Billion citizens in the country. Inclusion is an integral part of the program – Inclusion of all citizens in availing digital services and equally important, inclusion of all cross sections of the Industry – Indian start-ups, small, medium and large and multinational enterprises in innovation, engineering and manufacturing of electronic devices & equipment. IESA is proud to be associated with the Digital India initiative and will leverage the collective value of its members to realize Digital India and Make in India. Says Vinay Shenoy, Chairman, India Electronics and Semiconductors Association
“Today is a landmark day in the history of India. As the Prime Minister launches the Digital India Week, the dream of being an empowered technology-driven economy is one step closer to reality. Our conviction that India will be one of the foremost countries in the world became stronger last year when the initiative was announced and now our excitement has reached a crescendo. Oracle has been working tirelessly in the Indian public sector over the last two decades and on this momentous day, we are inspired and overwhelmed to see the exhilaration not just from the government but from the citizens of this nation as well. We congratulate the government on this milestone and want to assure the Prime Minister that Oracle is prepared to support his team to make India a force to reckon with.” marks Vineet Kshirsagar, Senior Director & Head – Government Business, Oracle India.
